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Otero 2016

Otero 2016

Otero, R. A. 2016. Taxonomic reassessment of Hydralmosaurus as Styxosaurus: new insights on the elasmosaurid neck evolution throughout the Cretaceous. PeerJ, 4:e1777. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1777

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