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Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea
Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their evolution remain poorly known. Here, we describe...
Autores principales: | Zhou, Chang-Fu, Gao, Ke-Qin, Yi, Hongyu, Xue, Jinzhuang, Li, Quanguo, Fox, Richard C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28386425 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160672 |
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