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Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria

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  • 1. Department of Anthropology, Lehman College and the Graduate School, New York, NYCEP (The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology) and Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 77th street, New York, NY 10024 (USA) delson@amnh.org
  • 2. UMR-CNRS 5143 Paléodiversité, département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle et Collège de France, case postale 38, 8 rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) hthomas@mnhn.fr
  • 3. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tzar Osvoboditel, 1000 Sofia (Bulgaria) nspassov@nmnh.bas.bg .

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Delson, Eric, Thomas, Herbert, Spassov, Nikolaï (2005): Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria. Geodiversitas 27 (1): 159-166, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5376200

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