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The largest Silurian vertebrate and its palaeoecological implications

An apparent absence of Silurian fishes more than half-a-metre in length has been viewed as evidence that gnathostomes were restricted in size and diversity prior to the Devonian. Here we describe the largest pre-Devonian vertebrate (Megamastax amblyodus gen. et sp. nov.), a predatory marine osteicht...

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Autores principales: Choo, Brian, Zhu, Min, Zhao, Wenjin, Jia, Liaotao, Zhu, You'an
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4054400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24921626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05242