Parallel evolution of theropod dinosaurs and birds

Zoologicheskii Zhurnal

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Kurochkin, E N ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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ARCHAEORNITHES; ARCHOSAUROMORPHA; AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; ENANTIORNITHES; FURCULA; ORNITHURAE; THEROPODA; TROODONTIDAE; TYRANNOSAURIDAE;

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