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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...

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Autores principales: Scheyer, Torsten M., Oliveira, Gustavo R., Romano, Pedro S. R., Bastiaans, Dylan, Falco, Lisa, Ferreira, Gabriel S., Rabi, Márton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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