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  1. Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, MS5 2C6, Canada

    C. McGOWAN

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, MS5 1A1, Canada

    C. McGOWAN

  3. Department of Ornithology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, MS5 2C6, Canada

    A. J. BAKER

  4. Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, MS5 1A1, Canada

    A. J. BAKER

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McGOWAN, C., BAKER, A. Common ancestry for birds and crocodiles?. Nature 289, 97–98 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289097e0

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