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Hermann Karsten (1817-1908): a German naturalist in the Neotropics and the significance of his paleovertebrate collection

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Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge Domingo, Amson, Eli, Zurita, Alfredo, SAEnchez-Villagra, Marcelo Ricardo (2016): Hermann Karsten (1817-1908): a German naturalist in the Neotropics and the significance of his paleovertebrate collection. Fossil Record 20 (1): 21-36, DOI: 10.5194/fr-20-21-2016, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-21-2016

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