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Fossil freshwater mollusks from the Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) of northern Taiwan
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- 1. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, no. 1, Roosevelt Road, Sec. 4, Taipei 106319 (Taiwan) b09204010@ntu.edu.tw
- 2. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, no. 128, Academia Road, Sec. 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529 (Taiwan) osipova.ds@outlook.com chlin.otolith@gmail.com (corresponding author)
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Hsu, Chia-Hsin, Osipova, Diana, Lin, Chien-Hsiang (2025): Fossil freshwater mollusks from the Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) of northern Taiwan. Geodiversitas 47 (20): 721-737, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a20, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a20.pdf
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