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2 - Multituberculata

from Part I - Non-eutherian mammals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

Christine M. Janis
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Brown University, Rhode Island
Gregg F. Gunnell
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mark D. Uhen
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University of Alabama, Birmingham
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