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On Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus, an Upper Triassic lepidosaurian from the Italian Alps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Giovanni Pinna
Giovanni Pinna*
Affiliation:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, corso Venezia 55, Milan, Italy
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Abstract

The functional interpretation of Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus, an Upper Triassic lepidosaurian from the Italian Alps, is given here. The peculiar anatomical structure of the post-cranial skeleton would point to a burrowing animal.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 60 , Issue 5 , September 1986 , pp. 1127 - 1132
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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