A new fossil marine lizard with soft tissues from the Late Cretaceous of southern Italy
A new marine lizard showing exceptional soft tissue preservation was found in Late Cretaceous deposits of the Apulian Platform (Puglia, Italy). Primitivus manduriensis gen. et sp. nov. is not only the first evidence of the presence of dolichosaurs in a southern Italian Carbonate Platform, filling a...
Main Authors: | Ilaria Paparella, Alessandro Palci, Umberto Nicosia, Michael W. Caldwell |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2018-01-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.172411 |
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