An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes

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• who: Randolph Glenn De La Garza from the DepartmentLund University have published the article: An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports

SUMMARY

| 1 Vol.:(0123456789) Fossils documenting the evolutionary reduction, and occasionally complete loss, of scales in soft-skinned turtle limbs are hitherto lacking. In part, this is because fossilized turtle integument is exceedingly rare, with only a handful of specimens showing remnant soft tissues (e_g, Refs.18-20; see also Supplementary Information). The fossil comprises a partial carapace . . .

 



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