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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...
Autores principales: | Choo, Brian, Zhu, Min, Zhao, Wenjin, Jia, Liaotao, Zhu, You'an |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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