Manus horribilis: The chicken wing skeleton

From Clone to Bone: The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Palaeobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 328-362

  Richardson, Michael K ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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