Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight and the largest animals to ever take wing. The pterosaurs persisted for over 150 million years before disappearing at the end of the Cretaceous, but the patterns of and processes driving their extinction remain unclear. Only a single fam...
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-03-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5849296?pdf=render |