New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Historique:
received: 27 03 2023
accepted: 22 06 2023
medline: 18 8 2023
pubmed: 17 8 2023
entrez: 16 8 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Dinosaurs and pterosaurs have remarkable diversity and disparity through most of the Mesozoic Era

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pubmed: 37587301
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06359-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06359-z
doi:

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eng

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IM

Pagination

589-594

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Rodrigo T Müller (RT)

Centro de Apoio à Pesquisa Paleontológica da Quarta Colônia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, São João do Polêsine, Brazil. rodrigotmuller@hotmail.com.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil. rodrigotmuller@hotmail.com.

Martín D Ezcurra (MD)

Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados CONICET-Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mauricio S Garcia (MS)

Centro de Apoio à Pesquisa Paleontológica da Quarta Colônia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, São João do Polêsine, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil.

Federico L Agnolín (FL)

Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados CONICET-Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fundación de Historia Natural 'Félix de Azara', Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropología, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Michelle R Stocker (MR)

Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Fernando E Novas (FE)

Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados CONICET-Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Marina B Soares (MB)

Laboratório de Sistemática e Tafonomia de Vertebrados Fósseis, Setor de Paleovertebrados, Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Alexander W A Kellner (AWA)

Laboratório de Sistemática e Tafonomia de Vertebrados Fósseis, Setor de Paleovertebrados, Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sterling J Nesbitt (SJ)

Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

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