The quality of the fossil record of Mesozoic birds

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2005-02-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2004.2923PMID 15705554PMCID PMC1634967
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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