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“Odontochelys preserves a fully developed plastron, expanded ribs and neural plates without a complete carapace” is a descriptive trait phrase used by 1 curated taxon profile(s); it is not a normalized ontology term or an independent homology judgment.
Trait phrases come from editorial taxon profiles; specimen attribution, definitions, homology and coding scale require verification before comparative use.
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References
- An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern ChinaLi, C.; Wu, X.-C.; Rieppel, O.; Wang, L.-T.; Zhao, L.-J. · 2008 · DOI 10.1038/nature07533
- A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body planSchoch, R.R.; Sues, H.-D. · 2015 · DOI 10.1038/nature14472
- Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic TurtlesJoyce, W.G. · 2007 · DOI 10.3374/0079-032X(2007)48[3:PROMT]2.0.CO;2