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A gigantic bizarre marine turtle (Testudines: Chelonioidea) from the Middle Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of South-western Europe

Marine turtles were common in the subtropical Upper Cretaceous epi-continental seas that once washed the coasts of the ancient European archipelago. But unlike its contemporaneous faunas from North America, in Europe no taxon surpassed the 1.5 m shell-length. Here, the remains of a new large marine...

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Autores principales: Castillo-Visa, Oscar, Luján, Àngel H., Galobart, Àngel, Sellés, Albert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36396968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22619-w