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The comparative osteology of Plesiochelys bigleri n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland)

BACKGROUND: During the Late Jurassic, several groups of eucryptodiran turtles inhabited the shallow epicontinental seas of Western Europe. Plesiochelyidae are an important part of this first radiation of crown-group turtles into coastal marine ecosystems. Fossils of Plesiochelyidae occur in many Eur...

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Autores principales: Püntener, Christian, Anquetin, Jérémy, Billon-Bruyat, Jean-Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28674653
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3482