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Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria
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Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight1 and comprised one of the main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately 252–66 million years ago), but their origin has remained an unresolved enigma in palaeontology since the nineteenth century2,3,4. These flying reptiles have been hypothesized to be the close relatives of a wide variety of reptilian clades, including dinosaur relatives2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and there is still a major morpholo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 588
- Pages:
- 445–449
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1133721
- Local pid:
- pubs:1133721
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Ezcurra, MD et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2020.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from
Springer Nature at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4
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