When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2015-07-22

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.0834PMID 26156768PMCID PMC4528552
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