Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China

Abstract Neck elongation has appeared independently in several tetrapod groups, including giraffes and sauropod dinosaurs on land, birds and pterosaurs in the air, and sauropterygians (plesiosaurs and relatives) in the oceans. Long necks arose in Early Triassic sauropterygians, but the nature and ra...

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Hoofdauteurs:	Qi-Ling Liu, Long Cheng, Thomas L. Stubbs, Benjamin C. Moon, Michael J. Benton, Chun-Bo Yan, Li Tian
Formaat:	Artigo
Taal:	Inglês
Gepubliceerd in:	BMC 2023-08-01
Reeks:	BMC Ecology and Evolution
Onderwerpen:	Marine reptile Eosauropterygia Mesozoic Body plan Nanzhang-Yuan’an Fauna
Online toegang:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02150-w
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