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The Thornton Beach Mammoth and the Antiquity of Mammuthus in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Spencer G. Lucas*
Affiliation:
New Mexico Museum of National History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
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