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A new framework of the evolution of the ctenodactylids (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Asia: new species and phylogenetic status of distylomyins

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  • 1. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural Sciences-Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC), C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain & Association Mujeres con los Pies en la Tierra, C/ Jose Antonio Novais, 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain
  • 2. Association Mujeres con los Pies en la Tierra, C/ Jose Antonio Novais, 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain & Department of Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology (GEODESPAL), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/ Jose Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain & Sedimentary Geology and Environmental Change, Geosciences Institute (CSIC, UCM), C/ del Dr Severo Ochoa, 7, 28040, Madrid, Spain
  • 3. Association Mujeres con los Pies en la Tierra, C/ Jose Antonio Novais, 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain
  • 4. Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria

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Oliver, Adriana, Carro-Rodríguez, Patricia M., López-Guerrero, Paloma, Daxner-Höck, Gudrun (2023): A new framework of the evolution of the ctenodactylids (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Asia: new species and phylogenetic status of distylomyins. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 (3): 633-655, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad030, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad030

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