A new reconstruction of the skull of the Callovian elasmosaurid plesiosaur Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley

Mercian Geologist

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Evans, Mark ^a  

^a New Walk Museum   (United Kingdom)

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