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A New Crested Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: The First European Tapejarid (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)
BACKGROUND: The Tapejaridae is a group of unusual toothless pterosaurs characterized by bizarre cranial crests. From a paleoecological point of view, frugivorous feeding habits have often been suggested for one of its included clades, the Tapejarinae. So far, the presence of these intriguing flying...
Autores principales: | Vullo, Romain, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, Kellner, Alexander W. A., Buscalioni, Angela D., Gomez, Bernard, de la Fuente, Montserrat, Moratalla, José J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038900 |
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