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Early Jurassic dinosaur fetal dental development and its significance for the evolution of sauropod dentition
Early Jurassic dinosaur fetal dental development and its significance for the evolution of sauropod dentition
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2020.
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Abstract
- Dinosaurs had some of the most complex dentitions known. Here, Reisz et al. characterize dental development across embryonic, hatchling and adult Lufengosaurus, an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur, and suggest that derived sauropod dentition evolved by paedomorphosis (juvenilization).
- Subjects :
- Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.2929889c4e3643c5bc7154130b0531f2
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16045-7