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The evolution of the lepidosaurian lower temporal bar: new perspectives from the Late Cretaceous of South China
Until recently, it was considered axiomatic that the skull of lizards and snakes arose from that of a diapsid ancestor by loss of the lower temporal bar. The presence of the bar in the living New Zealand Tuatara, Sphenodon, was thus considered primitive, corroborating its status as a ‘living fossil’...
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The Royal Society
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19324758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0030 |