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| Title |
A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0063586 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, France de Lapparent de Broin, Damien Germain, Olivier Lambert, Mbarek Amaghzaz |
| Abstract |
Secondary adaptation to aquatic life occurred independently in several amniote lineages, including reptiles during the Mesozoic and mammals during the Cenozoic. These evolutionary shifts to aquatic environments imply major morphological modifications, especially of the feeding apparatus. Mesozoic (250-65 Myr) marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurid squamates, crocodiles, and turtles, exhibit a wide range of adaptations to aquatic feeding and a broad overlap of their tooth morphospaces with those of Cenozoic marine mammals. However, despite these multiple feeding behavior convergences, suction feeding, though being a common feeding strategy in aquatic vertebrates and in marine mammals in particular, has been extremely rarely reported for Mesozoic marine reptiles. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 40 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 5 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 10% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 21 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 30 | 75% |
| Scientists | 7 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 112 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 95 | 85% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 21% |
| Researcher | 20 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 18 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 44 | 39% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 34 | 30% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 18 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 108. 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 27 September 2023.
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#394,985
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#5,554
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#2,699
of 206,974 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#151
of 4,788 outputs
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