Ontogenetic, dietary, and environmental shifts in Mesosauridae
Mesosaurs are the first secondarily aquatic amniotes and one of the most enigmatic clades of reptiles from the early Permian. They have long puzzled paleontologists with their unique morphologies: possessing an elongated skull with thin needle-like teeth, a long neck, large webbed hindlimbs, banana-...
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PeerJ Inc.
2022-09-01
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