The first complete skull of the triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn , Issue 77, 2007, Pages 9-55

  Yates, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Elliot formation; Late Triassic; Melanorosaurus; Sauropodomorpha; Skull; South Africa

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