A Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic 2 (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

A Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic 2

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Complete fossil and line drawing of Eretmorhipis carrolldongi. Related to the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs, Eretmorhipis evolved in a world devastated by the mass extinction event at the end of the Permian era.

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L. Cheng et al, Scientific Reports, Creative Commons 4.0

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