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First record of Trogontherium cuvieri (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the middle Pleistocene of Poland and review of the species

  • 1. Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, PL-00-818 Warsaw (Poland) and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (USA) lfost@twarda.pan.pl .

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Fostowicz-Frelik, Łucja (2008): First record of Trogontherium cuvieri (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the middle Pleistocene of Poland and review of the species. Geodiversitas 30 (4): 765-778, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651188

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