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Floristic, Vegetation And Climate Assessment Of The Early/Middle Miocene Parschlug Flora Indicates A Distinctly Seasonal Climate

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Kovar-Eder, Johanna, Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis, Mazouch, Petr, Collinson, Margaret E. (2022): Floristic, Vegetation And Climate Assessment Of The Early/Middle Miocene Parschlug Flora Indicates A Distinctly Seasonal Climate. Fossil Imprint 78 (1): 80-144, DOI: 10.37520/fi.2022.005, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.005

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