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Article: A new skeleton of the therocephalian synapsid Olivierosuchus parringtoni from the Lower Triassic South African Karoo Basin

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2011
Page(s): 591 – 606
Author(s): Jennifer Botha-Brink and Sean P. Modesto
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BOTHA-BRINK, J., MODESTO, S. P. 2011. A new skeleton of the therocephalian synapsid Olivierosuchus parringtoni from the Lower Triassic South African Karoo Basin. Palaeontology, 54, 3, 591–606.

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