Discovery of the oldest fossil mammal from India

Indian Minerals

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 217-222

  Datta, P M ^a   Das, D P ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

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