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Article: Australia's oldest Anseriform fossil: a quadrate from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Fauna

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 55
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2012
Page(s): 903 – 911
Author(s): Andrzej Elzanowski and Walter E. Boles
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ELZANOWSKI, A., BOLES, W. E. 2012. Australia's oldest Anseriform fossil: a quadrate from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Fauna. Palaeontology, 55, 4, 903–911.

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