Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians

Walter G. Joyce; Matthias Mäuser; Serjoscha W. Evers

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0252355

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Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians

Walter G. Joyce ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: walter.joyce@unifr.ch

Affiliation Departement für Geowissenschaften, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-2449

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Matthias Mäuser,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Naturkunde-Museum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
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Serjoscha W. Evers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departement für Geowissenschaften, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland
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Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians

Walter G. Joyce,
Matthias Mäuser,
Serjoscha W. Evers

Published: June 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252355

About the Authors

Walter G. Joyce

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: walter.joyce@unifr.ch

Affiliation Departement für Geowissenschaften, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-2449

Matthias Mäuser

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Naturkunde-Museum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

Serjoscha W. Evers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departement für Geowissenschaften, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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