Absence of Suction Feeding Ichthyosaurs and Its Implications for Triassic Mesopelagic Paleoecology

• Ryosuke Motani ,

  * E-mail: rmotani@ucdavis.edu

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

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• Cheng Ji,

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geological Museum, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Taketeru Tomita,

  Affiliations Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Hokkaido University Museum, Hakodate, Japan

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• Neil Kelley,

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

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• Erin Maxwell,

  Affiliation Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Da-yong Jiang,

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geological Museum, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Paul Martin Sander

  Affiliation Steinmann Institute, Division of Palaeontology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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