Reacquisition of the lower temporal bar in sexually dimorphic fossil lizards provides a rare case of convergent evolution

Temporal fenestration has long been considered a key character to understand relationships amongst reptiles. In particular, the absence of the lower temporal bar (LTB) is considered one of the defining features of squamates (lizards and snakes). In a re-assessment of the borioteiioid lizard Polyglyp...

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Autores principales: Simões, Tiago R., Funston, Gregory F., Vafaeian, Behzad, Nydam, Randall L., Doschak, Michael R., Caldwell, Michael W.
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/PMC4829860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27071447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24087

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27071447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24087

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