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Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur

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  • 1. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK & School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 2. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, UK
  • 3. GERA Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, SMBA University, Fez, Morocco
  • 4. Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 5. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • 6. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK & School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
  • 7. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK & Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Maidment, Susannah C. R., Strachan, Sarah J., Ouarhache, Driss, Scheyer, Torsten M., Brown, Emily E., Fernandez, Vincent, Johanson, Zerina, Raven, Thomas J., Barrett, Paul M. (2021): Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 (12): 1576-1581, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6

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