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Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany

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  • 1. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. Institut für Geographie und Geologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Strasse 17a, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
  • 2. Email: sebastian.stumpf@stud.uni-greifswald.de & urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:8DADF851-CFA5-469E-9628-AD020803B424

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Maxwell, Erin E., Stumpf, Sebastian (2017): Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy 321 (321): 1-29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.321

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