Elongate early tetrapods: Why 'Lizzie' had little limbs

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1996, Pages 139-148

  Carroll, Robert L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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