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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