The late cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography

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Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Krause, David W ^a   Rogers, Raymond R ^b   Forster, Catherine A ^a   Hartman, Joseph H ^c   Buckley, Gregory A ^d   Sampson, Scott D ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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