Growth and population age structure in the horned dinosaur chasmosaurus

Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 259-317

  Lehman, Thomas M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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