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New Specimens Of Anchiornis Huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) From The Late Jurassic Of Northeastern China

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  • 1. Department of Earth Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing
  • 3. Beijing Museum of Natural History, Beijing
  • 4. Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History
  • 5. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing

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Pei, Rui, Li, Quanguo, Meng, Qingjin, Norell, Mark A., Gao, Ke-Qin (2017): New Specimens Of Anchiornis Huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) From The Late Jurassic Of Northeastern China. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (411): 1-66, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-411.1.1, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/0003-0090-411.1.1

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