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Cranial anatomy and systematics of Hypacrosaurus altispinus, and a comparative analysis of skull growth in lambeosaurine hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)

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Evans, David C. (2010): Cranial anatomy and systematics of Hypacrosaurus altispinus, and a comparative analysis of skull growth in lambeosaurine hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (2): 398-434, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00611.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00611.x

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