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"Taylor, Michael A."

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 Taylor, Michael A. (detail)
   
1994
Stone, bone or blubber? Buoyancy control strategies in aquatic tetrapods. In: L. Maddock, Q. Bone, & J. M. V. Rayner (eds.), Mechanics and physiology of animal swimming.
Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press (260 pp.): 151-161. 1 tab. 4 figs.
–Suggests that sirs. are convergent on sea otters and placodonts in that they show increases in body density and submerged lung volume as adaptations for bottom-feeding in shallow water (160).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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