A carapace-like bony 'body tube' in an early triassic marine reptile and the onset of marine tetrapod predation.
Parahupehsuchus longus is a new species of marine reptile from the Lower Triassic of Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, China. It is unique among vertebrates for having a body wall that is completely surrounded by a bony tube, about 50 cm long and 6.5 cm deep, comprising overlapping ribs and gastr...
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Autores principales: | Xiao-hong Chen, Ryosuke Motani, Long Cheng, Da-yong Jiang, Olivier Rieppel |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/a2a980c2702749618237aa24886591a1 |
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