A detailed redescription of a skeletally immature 'Redondasaurus' suggests ontogenetic transformations in the taxon mirror phytosaurian morphological evolution.

The study of morphological evolution is fundamentally tied to ontogeny, yet studies of these heterochronic processes in the fossil record are rare. Fossils belonging to an ontogenetic series are difficult to assign to an ontogenetic stage due to inco…

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