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Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography

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Delsett, Lene L., Smith, Adam S., Ingrams, Stephen, Schneider, Simon (2024): Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (4): 565-585, DOI: 10.4202/app.01148.2024, URL: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01148.2024

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