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A new basal ornithopod dinosaur (Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada), and implications for late Maastrichtian ornithischian diversity in North America

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Brown, Caleb Marshall, Boyd, Clint A., Russell, Anthony P. (2011): A new basal ornithopod dinosaur (Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada), and implications for late Maastrichtian ornithischian diversity in North America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (4): 1157-1198, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00735.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00735.x

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