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Neurocranial anatomy of Paralligator (Neosuchia: Paralligatoridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia
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- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7-9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
- 2. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7-9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation & Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
- 3. AIRI, Presnenskaya naberezhnaya, 2, b.6, Moscow, 123112, Russian Federation & Institute for Personalized Oncology, World-Class Research Center 'Digital biodesign and personalized healthcare', I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Trubetskaya st., 8, Building 2, Moscow, 119048, Russian Federation
- 4. Borissiak Paleontological Institute RAS, Profsoyuznaya 123, Moscow, 117647, Russian Federation
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Kuzmin, Ivan T., Sichinava, Ekaterina A., Mazur, Evgeniia V., Gombolevskiy, Victor A., Sennikov, Andrey G., Skutschas, Pavel P. (2025): Neurocranial anatomy of Paralligator (Neosuchia: Paralligatoridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1): 1-40, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae177, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae177
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