A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods

BACKGROUND: Secondary adaptation to aquatic life occurred independently in several amniote lineages, including reptiles during the Mesozoic and mammals during the Cenozoic. These evolutionary shifts to aquatic environments imply major morphological modifications, especially of the feeding apparatus....

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Autores principales: Bardet, Nathalie, Jalil, Nour-Eddine, de Lapparent de Broin, France, Germain, Damien, Lambert, Olivier, Amaghzaz, Mbarek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063586

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