IX.—The Postcranial Skeleton of Ensthenopteron foordi Whiteaves

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 1970, Pages 207-329

  Andrews, S Mahala ^a   Westoll, T Stanley ^b  

^a University of Newcastle upon Tyne ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/S008045680001471X     Document Type: Article

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