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Description: Water balance of the Archegosaurus model. Like extant freshwater fishes, Archegosaurus was probably hyperosmotic to its environment and gained water by diffusion through the skin and the gills; the osmotic influx of water had to be compensated for by the production of dilute, hypoosmotic urine by the kidneys.
Title: Water balance of the Archegosaurus model
Credit: Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd (2017). "Modeling the physiology of the aquatic temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni from the early Permian of Germany". Fossil Record. 20 (2): 105–127. doi:10.5194/fr-20-105-2017
Author: Florian Witzmann; Elizabeth Brainerd
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