A stratigraphic survey of Triceratops localities in the Hell Creek Formation, northeastern Montana (2006-2010)

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 503, Issue , 2014, Pages 313-332

  Scannella, John B ^a   Fowler, Denver W ^a  

^a Museum of the Rockies   (United States)

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EID: 84894281081     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.2503(12)     Document Type: Article

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