Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates

The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 201-228

  Wedel, Mathew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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