Short-snouted toothless ichthyosaur from China suggests late triassic diversification of suction feeding ichthyosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Sander, P Martin ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^b   Cheng, Long ^b   Wang, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Yichang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CHINA; FACE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GUANLINGSAURUS LIANGAE; ICHTHYOSAUR; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SHASTASAURUS; SHASTASAURUS PACIFICUS; SHONISAURUS SIKANNIENSIS; UPPER TRIASSIC; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKING; TOOTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CEPHALOPODA; ICHTHYOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SHONISAURUS SIKANNIENSIS; TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TOOTH;

EID: 79956355820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019480     Document Type: Article

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