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Systematic revision of Neoreomys huilensis Fields, 1957 (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Middle Miocene of La Venta (Villavieja, Colombia)

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Av. Fontana 140, U9100GYO Trelew, Chubut (Argentina) fjurreab@gmail.com
  • 2. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, 111711 Bogotá DC (Colombia) a.link74@uniandes.edu.co
  • 3. Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 0843-03092, Balboa (Panama) juan.carrillo@unifr.ch
  • 4. Museo de Historia Natural de La Tatacoa, 411028, La Victoria, Huila (Colombia) andresvanegasv@gmail.com
  • 5. Museo de Historia Natural La Tormenta, Vereda El Líbano, La Victoria, Huila (Colombia) museolatormenta.mhnt@gmail.com
  • 6. Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (United States) scooke5@jhmi.edu
  • 7. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan 49401 (United States) tallmame@gvsu.edu
  • 8. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Av. Fontana 140, U9100GYO Trelew, Chubut (Argentina) mperez@mef.org.ar

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Urrea-Barreto, Francisco J., Link, Andrés, Carrillo, Juan D., Vanegas, Andrés, Perdomo, César A., Cooke, Siobhán B., Tallman, Melissa, Pérez, María E. (2023): Systematic revision of Neoreomys huilensis Fields, 1957 (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Middle Miocene of La Venta (Villavieja, Colombia). Geodiversitas 45 (25): 721-737, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a25, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2023v45a25.pdf

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