Sensory Evolution and Ecology of Early Turtles Revealed by Digital Endocranial Reconstructions
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1 School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2 Biology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Science, and Letters at Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 3 Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, 4 Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutionsund Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany
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