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Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

Despite their profound adaptations to the aquatic realm and their apparent success throughout the Triassic and the Jurassic, ichthyosaurs became extinct roughly 30 million years before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Current hypotheses for this early demise involve relatively minor biotic events...

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Autores principales: Fischer, Valentin, Bardet, Nathalie, Benson, Roger B. J., Arkhangelsky, Maxim S., Friedman, Matt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26953824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10825