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New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China
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- 1. Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, School of Lifesciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China & School of Ecology and environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China
- 2. Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, School of Lifesciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China & Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100024, China
- 3. Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, School of Lifesciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China
- 4. Lufeng Dinosaur Museum, Chuxiong 651299, China
- 5. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, United Kingdom
- 6. Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, School of Lifesciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China & Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 15705, United States
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Li, Hongqing, Xing, Xu, Jiang, Juan, Liu, Jianrong, Brusate, Stephen L., Bi, Shundong (2025): New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (1): 1-29, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf034, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf034
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