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The osteology of the holotype of the early erythrosuchid Garjainia prima (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the upper Lower Triassic of European Russia

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Ezcurra, Martín D, Gower, David J, Sennikov, Andrey G, Butler, Richard J (2019): The osteology of the holotype of the early erythrosuchid Garjainia prima (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the upper Lower Triassic of European Russia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (3): 717-783, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly061, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/717/5231795

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