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Synchrotron scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida, Dinocephalia)

Dinocephalian therapsids are renowned for their massive, pachyostotic and ornamented skulls adapted for head-to-head fighting during intraspecific combat. Synchrotron scanning of the tapinocephalid Moschops capensis reveals, for the first time, numerous anatomical adaptations of the central nervous...

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Autores principales: Benoit, Julien, Manger, Paul R., Norton, Luke, Fernandez, Vincent, Rubidge, Bruce S.
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/PMC5554600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28828230
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3496