Taxonomic review of fossil Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Langebaanweg, South Africa

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Sanders, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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