Macroevolutionary trends in the skull of sauropodomorph dinosaurs – The largest terrestrial animals to have ever lived

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

Volumn 124, Issue , 2010, Pages 259-269

  Young, Mark T ^a,b   Larvan, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85009216756     PISSN: 09300317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6_11     Document Type: Chapter

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