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Horned dinosaurs venture abroad

The discovery in Europe of fossils of a small horned dinosaur, a member of a group previously known only from Asia and North America, will prompt a rethink of biogeography at that time in the past.

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Figure 1: Coronosaurian horned dinosaurs in time and space.

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