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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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Autores principales: Pommery, Yannick, Scheyer, Torsten M., Neenan, James M., Reich, Tobias, Fernandez, Vincent, Voeten, Dennis F. A. E., Losko, Adrian S., Werneburg, Ingmar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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