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A New 13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian from Proto-Amazonian Mega-Wetlands Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trends in Skull Shape Linked to Longirostry

Gavialoid crocodylians are the archetypal longirostrine archosaurs and, as such, understanding their patterns of evolution is fundamental to recognizing cranial rearrangements and reconstructing adaptive pathways associated with elongation of the rostrum (longirostry). The living Indian gharial Gavi...

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Autores principales: Salas-Gismondi, Rodolfo, Flynn, John J., Baby, Patrice, Tejada-Lara, Julia V., Claude, Julien, Antoine, Pierre-Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27097031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152453

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