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Articulated skeletons of the aetosaur Typothorax coccinarum Cope (Archosauria: Stagonolepididae) from the Upper Triassic Bull Canyon Formation (Revueltian: early-mid Norian), eastern New Mexico, USA

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Pages 619-642 | Received 28 Feb 2009, Accepted 12 Aug 2009, Published online: 19 May 2010

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