Fossil crocodylians from Venezuela in the context of South American faunas

Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology: The Fossil Record of the Northern Neotropics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 192-213

  Scheyer, Torsten M ^a   Moreno Bernal, Jorge W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

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