Prosauropod dinosaur Sellosaurus gracilis (Upper Triassic, Germany): Third sacral vertebra as either a dorsosacral or a caudosacral

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 11, 2001, Pages 688-704

  Gallon, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

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