Digital reconstructions of sauropod dinosaurs and implications for feeding

The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 178-200

  Stevens, Kent A ^a   Parrish, J Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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