Dentition and feeding in Placodontia: tooth replacement in Henodus chelyops

Dentition and feeding in Placodontia: tooth replacement in Henodus chelyops

Abstract Background Placodontia is a Triassic sauropterygian reptile group characterized by flat and enlarged crushing teeth adapted to a durophagous diet. The enigmatic placodont Henodus chelyops has numerous autapomorphic character states, including extreme tooth count reduction to only a single p...

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Main Authors: Yannick Pommery, Torsten M. Scheyer, James M. Neenan, Tobias Reich, Vincent Fernandez, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Adrian S. Losko, Ingmar Werneburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
Synchrotron tomographic scans
Functional morphology
Jaw mechanism
Ontogeny
Evolution
Triassic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01835-4

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01835-4

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