Moropus merriami in the early Barstovian lower snake creek fauna of Nebraska, with comments on biogeography of North American Chalicotheres

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Volumn , Issue 285, 2004, Pages 191-208

  Coombs, Margery C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALICOTHERIIDAE; MOROPUS; OVIS ARIES; SERPENTES; TYLOCEPHALONYX; TYLOCEPHALONYX SKINNERI;

EID: 17144372618     PISSN: 00030090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2004)285<0191:c>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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