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A king-sized theropod coprolite

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  • 1. United States Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 975, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 2. Eastend Fossil Research Station, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Box 460, Eastend, Saskatchewan S0N 0T0, Canada
  • 3. Department of Integrative Biology & Museums of Vertebrate Zoology and Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

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Karen Chin, Timothy T. Tokaryk, Gregory M. Erickson, Lewis C. Calk (1998): A king-sized theropod coprolite. Nature 393: 680-682, DOI: 10.1038/31461

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