100 million years of land vertebrate evolution: The cretaceous-early tertiary transition

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 230-258

  Novacek, Michael J ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

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