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High phenotypic plasticity at the dawn of the eosauropterygian radiation.
PeerJ - 1 Jan 2023
Laboury Antoine, Scheyer Torsten M, Klein Nicole, Stubbs Thomas L, Fischer Valentin
Abstract excerpt
The initial radiation of Eosauropterygia during the Triassic biotic recovery represents a key event in the dominance of reptiles secondarily adapted to marine environments. Recent studies on Mesozoic marine reptile disparity highlighted that eosauropterygians had their greatest morphological diversity during the Middle Triassic, with the co-occurrence of Pachypleurosauroidea, Nothosauroidea and Pistosauroidea,...
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