Deducing the body posture of extinct large vertebrates from the shape of the vertebral column

Palaeontology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 801-812

  Christian, Andreas ^a   Preuschoft, Holger ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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