New evidence from China for the nature of the pterosaur evolutionary transition

Pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles, the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight. Our understanding of the evolutionary transition between basal, predominantly long-tailed forms to derived short-tailed pterodactyloids remained poor until the discovery of Wukongopterus and Darwinopterus in wes...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoli, Jiang, Shunxing, Zhang, Junqiang, Cheng, Xin, Yu, Xuefeng, Li, Yameng, Wei, Guangjin, Wang, Xiaolin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5311862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42763

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5311862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42763

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