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Crocodile remains from the Burdigalian (lower Miocene) of Gebel Zelten (Libya)

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  • 1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road BS8 1RJ, Bristol (England) E.Llinas-Agrasar@bris.ac.uk .

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Agrasar, Eduardo Llinás (2004): Crocodile remains from the Burdigalian (lower Miocene) of Gebel Zelten (Libya). Geodiversitas 26 (2): 309-321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5374025

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