Venezuelan Caribbean and Orinocoan Neogene fish

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 129-152

  Aguilera, Orangel A ^a   Lundberg, John ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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