Foramina in plesiosaur cervical centra indicate a specialized vascular system

Wintrich, Tanja; Scaal, Martin; Sander, P. Martin

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Foramina in plesiosaur cervical centra indicate a specialized vascular system

Tanja Wintrich, Martin Scaal, and P. Martin Sander

Tanja Wintrich

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tanja.wintrich@uni-bonn.de

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-8604

Bereich Paläontologie, Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Martin Scaal

Institut für Anatomie II, Universität zu Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50937 Cologne, Germany

P. Martin Sander

Bereich Paläontologie, Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany

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