New Highly Pachyostotic Nothosauroid Interpreted As a Filter-feeding Triassic Marine Reptile

Overview

Journal Biol Lett

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Aug 3

PMID 30068541

Citations 7

Authors

Carlos de Miguel Chaves

Francisco Ortega

Adan Perez-Garcia

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Abstract

Two well-preserved specimens of a new eosauropterygian from the Upper Triassic of Central Spain are attributed to a new taxon, gen. et sp. nov. It is a member of Simosauridae that presents several exclusive characters suggesting a highly specialized trophic adaptation. This discovery increases the already high ecological disparity of the Triassic marine reptiles.

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