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SUBMITTER: Druckenmiller PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000825 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Druckenmiller Patrick S PS Kelley Neil P NP Metz Eric T ET Baichtal James J
Scientific reports 20200204 1
Thalattosaurians are a cosmopolitan clade of secondarily aquatic tetrapods that inhabited low-latitude, nearshore environments during the Triassic. Despite their low taxic diversity, thalattosaurians exhibit remarkable morphological disparity, particularly with respect to rostral and dental morphology. However, a paucity of well-preserved material, especially leading up to their extinction, has hampered efforts to develop a robust picture of their evolutionary trajectories during a time of profo ...[more]