High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (reptilia, sauropterygia) from the triassic-jurassic boundary

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Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Benson, Roger B J ^a,b   Evans, Mark ^c,d   Druckenmiller, Patrick S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c New Walk Museum and Art Gallery   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVALONNECTES ARTURI; BIODIVERSITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; END TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION; EOPLESIOSAURUS ANTIQUIOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PELAGIC ZONE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOSAUR; PREDATION; SKELETON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRATESAURUS TAYLORI; TAXONOMY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CETACEA; CHELONIIDAE; CHELONIOIDEA; METAZOA; MOSASAUROIDEA; PLESIOSAURIA; REPTILIA; RHOMALEOSAURIDAE; SAUROPTERYGIA; TETRAPODA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 84858598164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031838     Document Type: Article

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