The late Cretaceous continental vertebrate fauna from Iharkút (western Hungary): A review

Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 533-570

  Õsi, Attila ^a   Rabi, Márton ^b   Makádi, László ^b   Szentesi, Zoltán ^b   Botfalvai, Gábor ^b   Gulyás, Péter ^b  

^a Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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