Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians.
Late Jurassic deposits across Europe have yielded a rich fauna of extinct turtles. Although many of these turtles are recovered from marine deposits, it is unclear which of these taxa are habitually marine and which may be riverine species washed into nearby basins, as adaptations to open marine con...
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Main Authors: | Walter G Joyce, Matthias Mäuser, Serjoscha W Evers |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/3f4e704e69c5465d8890c0c9681b259a |
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