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Therian femora from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

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Chester, Stephen G.B., Sargis, Eric J., Szalay, Frederick S., Archibald, J. David, Averianov, Alexander O. (2012): Therian femora from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (1): 53-64, DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0097, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0097

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