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2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 66:
The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.
