Lower Cretaceous fossils from China shed light on the ancestral body plan of crown softshell turtles (Trionychidae, Cryptodira)
Abstract Pan-trionychids or softshell turtles are a highly specialized and widespread extant group of aquatic taxa with an evolutionary history that goes back to the Early Cretaceous. The earliest pan-trionychids had already fully developed the “classic” softshell turtle morphology and it has been i...
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Autores principales: | Donald Brinkman, Márton Rabi, Lijun Zhao |
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/48462879e3f04353bbf6b3afddd25f48 |
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