Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils

• Ryosuke Motani,

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Da-yong Jiang ,

  * E-mail: djiang@pku.edu.cn

  Affiliations Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology and Geological Museum, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

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• Andrea Tintori,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli, Milano, Italy

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• Olivier Rieppel,

  Affiliation Center of Integrative Research, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Guan-bao Chen

  Affiliation Department of Research, Anhui Geological Museum, Hefei, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China

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