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Baurusuchid crocodyliforms as theropod mimics: clues from the skull and appendicular morphology of Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (Upper Cretaceous of Brazil)

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Riff, Douglas, Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin (2011): Baurusuchid crocodyliforms as theropod mimics: clues from the skull and appendicular morphology of Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (Upper Cretaceous of Brazil). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (5): 644-645, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00713.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00713.x

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