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Dentition and feeding in Placodontia: tooth replacement in Henodus chelyops
BACKGROUND: Placodontia is a Triassic sauropterygian reptile group characterized by flat and enlarged crushing teeth adapted to a durophagous diet. The enigmatic placodont Henodus chelyops has numerous autapomorphic character states, including extreme tooth count reduction to only a single pair of p...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8256584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34225664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01835-4 |