Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) from Riversleigh, northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation

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  2003

• Venue

  Geobios

• Publication date

  2003-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0016-6995(03)00056-1
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