Fossil tu rtles from the northern neotropics: The Urumaco sequence fauna and finds from other localities in Venezuela and Colombia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 173-191

  Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a   Scheyer, Torsten M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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