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SUBMITTER: Pritchard AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5865133 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pritchard Adam C AC Gauthier Jacques A JA Hanson Michael M Bever Gabriel S GS Bhullar Bhart-Anjan S BS
Nature communications 20180323 1
Following the Permo-Triassic Extinction, large-bodied diapsid reptiles-with a body length >1 m-rapidly expanded their ecological roles. This diversification is reflected in enormous disparity in the development of the rostrum and adductor chamber. However, it is unclear how marked the diversity of the feeding apparatus was in contemporary small-bodied diapsids. Here we describe the remarkably small skull (2.5 cm long) of a saurian reptile, Colobops noviportensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Trias ...[more]