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Article: An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1547 – 1564
Author(s): Michael P. Taylor and Darren Naish
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TAYLOR, M. P., NAISH, D. 2007. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. Palaeontology, 50, 6, 1547–1564.

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