New land tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Miocene of Africa

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

• Publication date

  1986-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/J.1096-3642.1986.TB01813.X
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  Semantic Scholar

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