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Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs

Plesiosaurians are an extinct group of highly derived Mesozoic marine reptiles with a global distribution that spans 135 million years from the Early Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. During their long evolutionary history they maintained a unique body plan with two pairs of large wing-like flippers,...

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Autores principales: Liu, Shiqiu, Smith, Adam S., Gu, Yuting, Tan, Jie, Liu, C. Karen, Turk, Greg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26683221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004605