Sauropodomorph diversity through time:macroevolutionary and palaeoecological implications

The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 125-156

  Barrett, Paul M ^a   Upchurch, Paul ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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