Nesting titanosaurs from Auca Mahuevo and adjacent sites

The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 285-302

  Chiappe, Luis M ^a   Jackson, Frankie ^b   Coria, Rodolfo A ^c   Dingus, Lowell ^d  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Museo Carmen Funes   (Argentina)

^d Infoquest Foundation   (United States)

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