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Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus

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Young, Mark T., Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Hornung, Jahn J., Foffa, Davide, Kitson, James J. N., Johnson, Michela M., Steel, Lorna (2021): Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (2): 510-553, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa092, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa092

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