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Lower Cretaceous fossils from China shed light on the ancestral body plan of crown softshell turtles (Trionychidae, Cryptodira)

Pan-trionychids or softshell turtles are a highly specialized and widespread extant group of aquatic taxa with an evolutionary history that goes back to the Early Cretaceous. The earliest pan-trionychids had already fully developed the “classic” softshell turtle morphology and it has been impossible...

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Autores principales: Brinkman, Donald, Rabi, Márton, Zhao, Lijun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28751684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04101-0