Common avian infection plagued the tyrant dinosaurs.
<h4>Background</h4>Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrannosaurid fossils often display multiple, smooth-edged full-thickness erosive lesions on the mandible, either unilaterally or bilaterally. The cause of these lesions in the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen FMNH PR2081 (known informally by the...
Main Authors: | Ewan D S Wolff, Steven W Salisbury, John R Horner, David J Varricchio |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-09-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19789646/pdf/?tool=EBI |
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