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The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus

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  • 2. Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA

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Paul, Gregory S., Iv, W. Scott Persons, Van Raalte, Jay (2022): The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus. Evolutionary Biology 49 (2): 156-179, DOI: 10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5

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