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Research Article

A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China

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Article: 2293038 | Received 30 May 2023, Accepted 06 Dec 2023, Published online: 17 Jan 2024

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