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The skull of the Upper Cretaceous snake Dinilysia patagonica Smith-Woodward, 1901, and its phylogenetic position revisited

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Zaher, Hussam, Scanferla, Carlos Agustín (2012): The skull of the Upper Cretaceous snake Dinilysia patagonica Smith-Woodward, 1901, and its phylogenetic position revisited. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1): 194-238, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00755.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00755.x

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