Paleogeography of the Caribbean region: Implications for cenozoic biogeography

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Volumn , Issue 238, 1999, Pages 1-72

  Iturralde Vinent, Manuel A ^a   MacPhee, R D E ^a  

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