Blog post (Chicago)

Note

Chicago-84

45. Gregory LeFever, “Skull Fraud ‘Created’ the Brontosaurus,” Ancient Tides (blog), December 16, 2012, http://ancient-tides.blogspot.com/2012/12/skull-fraud-created-brontosaurus.html.

Bibliography

LeFever, Gregory. Ancient Tides (blog). http://ancient-tides.blogspot.com/.

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