Extreme Ontogenetic Changes in a Ceratosaurian Theropod

@article{Wang2017ExtremeOC,
  title={Extreme Ontogenetic Changes in a Ceratosaurian Theropod},
  author={Shuo Wang and Josef Stiegler and Romain Amiot and Xu Wang and Guoyi Du and James M. Clark and Xing Xu},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2017},
  volume={27},
  pages={144-148}
}
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