A New Rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany with a Dentition That Is Unique amongst Tetrapods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Rauhut, Oliver W M ^a   Heyng, Alexander M ^a   López Arbarello, Adriana ^a   Hecker, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERMANY; JAW; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OENOSAURUS MUEHLHEIMENSIS; PALATE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPHENODON; SPHENOID; TAXONOMY; TETRAPOD; TOOTH PLAQUE; UPPER JURASSIC;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENTITION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GERMANY; LIZARDS; MAMMALS; SNAKES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SERPENTES; SPHENODON; SPHENODONTIA; SQUAMATA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84868293018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046839     Document Type: Article

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