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Nouvelles données sur Phosphatherium escuilliei (Mammalia, Proboscidea) de l'Éocène inférieur du Maroc, apports à la phylogénie des Proboscidea et des ongulés lophodontes

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  • 1. UMR-CNRS 5143 « Paléobiodiversité », Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 8 rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) gheerbra@mnhn.fr
  • 2. Laboratoire de Paléontologie de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (ISEM, UMR 5554 du CNRS), Université de Montpellier II (cc 064), place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier cedex 05 (France)
  • 3. UMR-CNRS 5143 « Paléobiodiversité », Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 8 rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 4. Groupe Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), minier de Khouribga, Service géologique et Direction du Développement, Khouribga (Maroc)
  • 5. Direction de la Géologie, Ministère de l'Énergie et des Mines, BP 6208 Rabat-Instituts (Maroc)

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Gheerbrant, Emmanuel, Sudre, Jean, Tassy, Pascal, Amaghzaz, Mbarek, Bouya, Baâdi, Iarochène, Mohamed (2005): Nouvelles données sur Phosphatherium escuilliei (Mammalia, Proboscidea) de l'Éocène inférieur du Maroc, apports à la phylogénie des Proboscidea et des ongulés lophodontes. Geodiversitas 27 (2): 239-333, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5375224

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