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The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the long-term patterns of body size evolution in Crocodylomorpha, the > 200-million-year-old group that includes living crocodylians and their extinct relatives. Extant crocodylians are mostly large-bodied (3–7 m) predators. However, extinct crocodylomorphs exhib...

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Autores principales: Godoy, Pedro L., Benson, Roger B. J., Bronzati, Mario, Butler, Richard J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31390981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1466-4