Lunge feeding in early marine reptiles and fast evolution of marine tetrapod feeding guilds

Traditional wisdom holds that biotic recovery from the end-Permian extinction was slow and gradual, and was not complete until the Middle Triassic. Here, we report that the evolution of marine predator feeding guilds, and their trophic structure, proceeded faster. Marine reptile lineages with unique...

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Autores principales: Motani, Ryosuke, Chen, Xiao-hong, Jiang, Da-yong, Cheng, Long, Tintori, Andrea, Rieppel, Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25754468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08900