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  Fujiwara, Shin-ichi; Kuwazuru, Osamu; Inuzuka, Norihisa; Yoshikawa, Nobuhiro
  2009
Relationship between scapular position and structural strength of rib cage in quadruped animals.
Jour. Morph. 270: 1084-1094. 1 tab. 5 figs.
–Concludes that the scapula of Paleoparadoxia media was oriented like that of other quadrupedal mammals, not in the position suggested by a "herpetiform" or sprawling reconstruction.

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