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New Late Cretaceous microvertebrate assemblage from the Campanian-Maastrichtian Williams Fork Formation, northwestern Colorado, USA, and its paleoenvironmental implications

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Brand, Nickolas A., Heckert, Andrew B., Sanchez, Israel, Foster, John R., Hunt-Foster, Rebecca K., Eberle, Jaelyn J. (2022): New Late Cretaceous microvertebrate assemblage from the Campanian-Maastrichtian Williams Fork Formation, northwestern Colorado, USA, and its paleoenvironmental implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (3): 579-600, DOI: 10.4202/app.00934.2021, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00934.2021

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