An ancient marine reptile found in China may have been a filter feeder like a modern bowhead or right whale, according to an analysis of the skulls from two newly discovered specimens, published in BMC Ecology and Evolution.
We thank Dong-Yi Niu for fossil collection and preparation. We also thank Jun-Yu Wan from Wuxi Research Institute of Petroleum Geology and Xin Sun from China University of Geosciences for their suggestion on morphometric analysis. We thank the editor, Jennifer Harman, as well as Carlos de Miguel Chaves and an anonymous reviewer, for their very helpful comments on this manuscript.We are grateful for support from Grant DD20230006 from the China Geological Survey, Grant nos.
41972014, 41830320, 42030513 and 42272361 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant PEL-202101 from the Foundation of Hubei Key Laboratory of Paleontology and Geological Environment Evolution, and Grant KJ2021-3 and KJ2022-1 from the Science and Technology Special Fund of Hubei Geological Bureau. The funding body played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, interpretation of data, and in writing the manuscript.
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