Novel insight into the origin of the growth dynamics of sauropod dinosaurs

• Ignacio Alejandro Cerda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nachocerda6@yahoo.com.ar

  Affiliation CONICET-Instituto de Investigaciónen Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Museo Carlos Ameghino, Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentina

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• Anusuya Chinsamy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cape Town, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa

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• Diego Pol,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CONICET- Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina

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• Cecilia Apaldetti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CONICET- Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina, IMCN-Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

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• Alejandro Otero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CONICET-División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

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• Jaime Eduardo Powell †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CONICET-Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina

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• Ricardo Nestor Martínez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IMCN-Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

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