Overview of sauropod phylogeny and evolution

The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15-49

  Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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