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A limping dinosaur in the Late Jurassic: Pathologies in the pes of the neornithischian Othnielosaurus consors from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, USA)

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Pages 1753-1759 | Received 21 Oct 2019, Accepted 20 Feb 2020, Published online: 02 Mar 2020

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