A Carapace-Like Bony ‘Body Tube’ in an Early Triassic Marine Reptile and the Onset of Marine Tetrapod Predation

• Xiao-hong Chen,

  Affiliation Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

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• Ryosuke Motani ,

  * E-mail: rmotani@ucdavis.edu

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Long Cheng,

  Affiliation Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

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• Da-yong Jiang,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology and Geological Museum, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China

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• Olivier Rieppel

  Affiliation Center of Integrative Research, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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