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Out of the Pacific: A second fossil porpoise from the Pliocene of the North Sea Basin

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Colpaert, Wouter, Bosselaers, Mark, Lambert, Olivier (2015): Out of the Pacific: A second fossil porpoise from the Pliocene of the North Sea Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (1): 1-10, DOI: 10.4202/app.00115.2014, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00115.2014

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