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A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil
Fossils of Cretaceous sea turtles adapted to an open marine lifestyle remain rare finds to date. Furthermore, the relationships between extant sea turtles, chelonioids, and other Mesozoic marine turtles are still contested, with one key species being Santanachelys gaffneyi Hirayama, 1998, long consi...
Autores principales: | Scheyer, Torsten M., Oliveira, Gustavo R., Romano, Pedro S. R., Bastiaans, Dylan, Falco, Lisa, Ferreira, Gabriel S., Rabi, Márton |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37163143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00271-9 |
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