The affinities of Melanorosaurus - A Late Triassic prosauropod dinosaur from South Africa

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-55

  Van Heerden, Jacques ^a,b   Galton, Peter M ^a,c  

^a University of Fort Hare ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

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