We report on very small fossil eggs from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand, one of them containing a theropod embryo, which
display a remarkable mosaic of characters. While the surficial ornamentation is typical of non-avian saurischian dinosaurs,
the three-layered prismatic structure of the eggshell is currently known only in extant and fossil eggs associated with birds.
These eggs, about the size of a goldfinch's, mirror at the reproductive level the retention of small body size that was paramount
in the transition from non-avian theropods to birds. The egg-layer may have been a small feathered theropod similar to those
recently found in China.
Communicated by G. Mayr