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A new spalacolestine mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for the morphology, phylogeny, and palaeobiology of Laurasian 'symmetrodontans'

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Han, Gang, Meng, Jin (2016): A new spalacolestine mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for the morphology, phylogeny, and palaeobiology of Laurasian 'symmetrodontans'. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (2): 343-380, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12416, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12416

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