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A new basal sauropodiform from South Africa and the phylogenetic relationships of basal sauropodomorphs

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Otero, Alejandro, Krupandan, Emil, Pol, Diego, Chinsamy, Anusuya, Choiniere, Jonah (2015): A new basal sauropodiform from South Africa and the phylogenetic relationships of basal sauropodomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (3): 589-634, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12247, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12247

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