Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas
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Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas
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Volume 8, Issue -, Pages e8941
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2020-04-13
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10.7717/peerj.8941
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