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High vascularity in bones of dinosaurs, mammals and birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. E. H. Reid
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Department of Geology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, 22nd April 1982
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