Cranial osteology of the theropod dinosaur incisivosaurus gauthieri (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)

American Museum Novitates

Volumn , Issue 3651, 2010, Pages 1-34

  Balanoff, Amy M ^a,b   Xu, Xing ^c   Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu ^d   Matsufune, Yusuke ^d   Norell, Mark A ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77950132105     PISSN: 00030082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/644.1     Document Type: Article

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