Sauropterygia was the most successful marine reptile radiation in history, spanning almost the entire Mesozoic and exploiting a wide range of habitats and ecological niches. Here we report a new, ...
For around 50 million years, placodonts populated the flat coastal regions of the Tethys Ocean, in modern day Europe and China. The most distinctive feature of these dinosaurs was their teeth: The ...
Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans. However, when and where these highly specialized marine reptiles originated ...
Studying the physical features of long-extinct creatures continues to yield surprising new knowledge of how evolution fosters traits desirable for survival in diverse environments. Placodonts are a ...
Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans. However, when and where these highly specialized marine reptiles originated ...
This image shows placodonts of the Cyamodus hildegardis species. Site of the find: Monte San Giorgo, Ticino (picture: UZH). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...
Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans. However, when and where these highly specialized marine reptiles originated ...
The file containing Supplementary Data 1 was inadvertently omitted during production of this article and should have been referred to in the ‘Phylogenetic analysis’ section of the Methods, as follows: ...
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