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A Euenantiornithine Bird from the Late Cretaceous Ha eg Basin of Romania

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Wang, Xia, Dyke, Gareth J., Codrea, Vlad, Godefroit, Pascal, Smith, Thierry (2011): A Euenantiornithine Bird from the Late Cretaceous Ha eg Basin of Romania. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (4): 853-857, DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0085, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0085

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