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The earliest evidence for a supraorbital salt gland in dinosaurs in new Early Cretaceous ornithurines

Supraorbital fossae occur when salt glands are well developed, a condition most pronounced in marine and desert-dwelling taxa in which salt regulation is key. Here, we report the first specimens from lacustrine environments of the Jehol Biota that preserve a distinct fossa above the orbit, where the...

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Autors principals: Wang, Xia, Huang, Jiandong, Hu, Yuanchao, Liu, Xiaoyu, Peteya, Jennifer, Clarke, Julia A.
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838252/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29507398
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22412-8
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