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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lepidosauria"”.
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The ecomorphology of facultative bipedality in Lepidosauria: implications for the evolution of reptilian bipedality
… evolution of this behaviour in a modern clade: Lepidosauria. Linear morphometric studies accounting for variation in body size indicate that forelimb segment lengths across locomotor modes do not differ for lepidosaurs of the same size, but that distal hindlimbs segments differ greatly, …
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A ocorrência de lagartos marinhos (Mosasauridade: Lepidosauria) e sua associação faunística no cretáceo da bacia Pernambuco - Paraíba, Nordeste do Brasil
This dissertation carries out a survey of the occurrences of the mosasaurid marine lizard fauna from the Pernambuco-Paraíba basin of the Northeastern Brazil. Specimens housed in paleontological collections from several institutions have been examined and new material from the mentioned basin has …
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Estudo taxonômico dos "lagartos" fósseis (Lepidosauria: Squamata) da Bacia de São José de Itaboraí (Paleoceno), estado do Rio de Janeiro
ln this dissertation 84 selected "lizard" specimens of the Paleocene deposits from the São José de Itaboraí Basin were studied. The material consists of isolated, sometimes incomplete, premaxillae, maxillae and dentaries. Seven taxa were recognized as follows: Iguania incertae sedis (new gen. and …
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Rise of present-day tetrapods in the paleotropics of Late Triassic equatorial Pangaea: new insights from microvertebrate data
The Triassic Period (~252–201.5 Ma) saw a transformative radiation and reorganization of continental tetrapod diversity following the end-Permian Extinction, including an assemblage of diverse forms that do not survive the end-Triassic (herein termed the 'endemic Triassic fauna', =ETF), as well as …