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Functional morphology of neck musculature in the Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) as determined via a hierarchical inferential approach

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Eric Snively, Anthony P. Russell (2007): Functional morphology of neck musculature in the Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) as determined via a hierarchical inferential approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151, No. 4: 759-808, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00334.x

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