Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China

@article{L2014PostnatalPC,
  title={Post-natal parental care in a Cretaceous diapsid from northeastern China},
  author={Junchang L{\"u} and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Denis Charles Deeming and Yongqing Liu},
  journal={Geosciences Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={19},
  pages={273-280}
}
Post-natal parental care seems to have evolved numerous times in vertebrates. Among extant amniotes, it is present in crocodilians, birds, and mammals. However, evidence of this behavior is extremely rare in the fossil record and is only reported for two types of dinosaurs, and a varanopid ‘pelycosaur’. Here we report new evidence for post-natal parental care in Philydrosaurus, a choristodere, from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. We review the fossil record of… 
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