Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China

Neck elongation has appeared independently in several tetrapod groups, including giraffes and sauropod dinosaurs on land, birds and pterosaurs in the air, and sauropterygians (plesiosaurs and relatives) in the oceans. Long necks arose in Early Triassic sauropterygians, but the nature and rate of tha...

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Autores principales: Liu, Qi-Ling, Cheng, Long, Stubbs, Thomas L., Moon, Benjamin C., Benton, Michael J., Yan, Chun-Bo, Tian, Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10469986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37648992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02150-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10469986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37648992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02150-w

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