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Article: New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 57
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2014
Page(s): 963 – 978
Author(s): <p>Floréal Solé</p>
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SOLÉ, F. 2014. New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes. Palaeontology, 57, 5, 963–978. doi: 10.1111/pala.12097

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  • Floréal Solé - Département Histoire de la Terre, UMR 7207 CR2P, Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (email: floreal.sole@naturalsciences.be)
  • Floréal Solé - OD Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 12 SEP 2014
  • Article first published online: 4 MAR 2014
  • Manuscript Accepted: 20 DEC 2013
  • Manuscript Received: 10 OCT 2013

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