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Vertebral fusion in two Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China

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Xing, Lida, Rothschild, Bruce M., Ran, Hao, Miyashita, Tetsuto, Iv, W. Scott Persons, Sekiya, Toru, Zhang, Jianping, Wang, Tao, Dong, Zhiming (2015): Vertebral fusion in two Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3): 643-649, DOI: 10.4202/app.00001.2013, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00001.2013

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