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Size-independent criteria for estimating relative age in Ophiacodon and Dimetrodon (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from the Admiral and lower Belle Plains formations of west-central Texas

Donald Brinkman Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta, TOJ 0Y0
Pages 172-180 | Received 17 Dec 1986, Accepted 04 May 1987, Published online: 24 Aug 2010

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