Skull ontogeny of extant caimans: a three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.06.003
Abstract: Ontogenetic variation of cranial characters used in crocodylian phylogenetic systematics has never been studied. Furthermore, the relationship between diet and skull morphological transformation during ontogeny has not been properly explored yet. We quantify the inter-… read more here.
Keywords: three dimensional; skull ontogeny; ontogeny extant; approach ... See more keywords