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A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa
- 1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria, 53, I-56126 Pisa (Italy) bianucci@dst.unipi.it
- 2. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Département de Paléontologie, rue Vautier, 29, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) olivier.lambert@naturalsciences.be
- 3. Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, P.O. Box 23452, NL-3001 Rotterdam (The Netherlands) klaas@fiskano.nl
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Bianucci, Giovanni, Lambert, Olivier, Post, Klaas (2007): A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29 (4): 561-618, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651080
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