Morphological diversity in the postcranial skeleton of casamayoran (?Middle to late eocene) notoungulata and foot posture in notoungulates

American Museum Novitates

Volumn , Issue 3601, 2007, Pages 1-28

  Shockey, Bruce J ^a,b   Flynn, John J ^b  

^a MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 40749103379     PISSN: 00030082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3601[1:mditps]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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