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Skeletal reconstruction of fossil vertebrates as a process of hypothesis testing and a source of anatomical and palaeobiological inferences

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  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, 11455 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9 (Canada) and Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, 9301 112 Avenue, Wembley, AB, T0H 3S0 (Canada) corwin1@ualberta.ca (corresponding author)
  • 2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, 11455 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9 (Canada)
  • 3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, 11455 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9 (Canada) robin.sissons@gmail.com hssharpe@ualberta.ca khoi2@ualberta.ca btheurer@ualberta.ca

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Sullivan, Corwin, Sissons, Robin, Sharpe, Henry, Nguyen, Khoi, Theurer, Brandon (2024): Skeletal reconstruction of fossil vertebrates as a process of hypothesis testing and a source of anatomical and palaeobiological inferences. Comptes Rendus Palevol 23 (5): 69-83, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a5

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