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Postcranial remains of basal typotherian notoungulates from the Eocene of northwestern Argentina

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Armella, Matías A., García-López, Daniel A., Babot, M. Judith, Deraco, Virginia, Herrera, Claudia M., Saade, Luis, Bertelli, Sara (2020): Postcranial remains of basal typotherian notoungulates from the Eocene of northwestern Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65: 1-17, DOI: 10.4202/app.00664.2019, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00664.2019

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