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| Title |
A New Rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany with a Dentition That Is Unique amongst Tetrapods
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0046839 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Alexander M. Heyng, Adriana López-Arbarello, Andreas Hecker |
| Abstract |
Rhynchocephalians, the sister group of squamates (lizards and snakes), are only represented by the single genus Sphenodon today. This taxon is often considered to represent a very conservative lineage. However, rhynchocephalians were common during the late Triassic to latest Jurassic periods, but rapidly declined afterwards, which is generally attributed to their supposedly adaptive inferiority to squamates and/or Mesozoic mammals, which radiated at that time. New finds of Mesozoic rhynchocephalians can thus provide important new information on the evolutionary history of the group. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 22 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 9% |
| Japan | 2 | 9% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Argentina | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 1 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 64% |
| Scientists | 8 | 36% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 65 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 61 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 20% |
| Researcher | 10 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 14% |
| Professor | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Other | 8 | 12% |
| Unknown | 9 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 43% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 20 | 31% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2023.
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#525,078
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#7,226
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#2,779
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#113
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