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A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera

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Bisconti, Michelangelo, Munsterman, Dirk K., Fraaije, René H.B. (2020): A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera. PeerJ 8 (8315): 1-32, DOI: http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8315

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