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Article: The long-term history of dispersal among lizards in the early Eocene: new evidence from a microvertebrate assemblage in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2011
Page(s): 1243 – 1270
Author(s): Krister T. Smith
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SMITH, K. T. 2011. The long-term history of dispersal among lizards in the early Eocene: new evidence from a microvertebrate assemblage in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA. Palaeontology, 54, 6, 1243–1270.

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