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Research Article

Complex food preference analysis of the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) lizards from Iharkút (Bakony Mountains, Hungary)

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Pages 3686-3702 | Received 09 Dec 2020, Accepted 04 Feb 2021, Published online: 21 Feb 2021

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