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Article: Postcranial morphology, functional adaptations and palaeobiology of Callistoe vincei, a predaceous metatherian from the Eocene of Salta, north-western Argentina

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2011
Page(s): 447 – 480
Author(s): Christine Argot and Judith Babot
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ARGOT, C., BABOT, J. 2011. Postcranial morphology, functional adaptations and palaeobiology of Callistoe vincei, a predaceous metatherian from the Eocene of Salta, north-western Argentina. Palaeontology, 54, 2, 447–480.

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