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A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan

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Saegusa, Haruo, Ikeda, Tadahiro (2014): A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan. Zootaxa 3848 (1): 1-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1

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