FIGURE 8. (1) Fossilized eggshell fragments T92-88 (blue) and T93-17 (yellow) indicating best fit to the same black eagle egg as illustrated in Figure 6, plus six additional black eagle eggs. Note despite intraspecific variability in egg shape, the fits are quite similar (also see Table 3). This suggests even accounting for intraspecific variability in egg shape Results in Table 2 should be robust. (2) Fossil eggshell fragments T92-88 (blue) and T93-17 (yellow) indicating best fit to the same guinea fowl egg as illustrated in Figure 6 (far left), plus four additional guinea fowl eggs. Note that despite intraspecific variability in egg shape, the fits are quite consistent (also see Table 3). This suggests that even accounting for intraspecific variability in egg shape results of the surface curvature analyses are robust.

Published as part of Kuhn, BF, Carlson, KJ, Hopley, PJ., Zipfel, B & Berger, LR., 2015, Identification of fossilized eggshells from the Taung hominin locality, Taung, Northwest Province, South Afric, pp. 1-16 in Palaeontologia Electronica 255 (15) on page 12, DOI: 10.26879/442, http://zenodo.org/record/13305079