A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania

2002/04/01 by Éric Buffetaut, Buffetaut E., Dan Grigorescu +2 · 15 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · doi:10.1007/s00114-002-0307-1

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