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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Fossoriality"”.
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Fossoriality In Snakes: Perspectives From Morphology And The Fossil Record
… particularly in relation to adaptation to fossoriality, is potentially responsible for the incongruences between phylogenetic hypothesis of snakes that use either morphological or molecular data. In this project I used CT scans of 73 species of alethinophidian snake and geometric …
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Rise of present-day tetrapods in the paleotropics of Late Triassic equatorial Pangaea: new insights from microvertebrate data
… of caecilian anatomies associated with fossoriality, and evidence of an ancient pattern of equatorial biogeographic restriction in caecilians from the Triassic to the present day. My second chapter describes and analyzes an assemblage of lepidosauromorphs from the Late Triassic of …
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Functional anatomy, osteogenesis and bone microstructure of the appendicular system of African mole-rats (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica: Bathyergidae)
… model to explore their skeletal adaptations to fossoriality and life underground. The aim of this research was to assess the patterns of bone growth and development to understand how adults attain their final phenotype. A comprehensive sample (N = 506) of all six bathyergid genera including …