Quasi-static Eocene–Oligocene climate in Patagonia promotes slow faunal evolution and mid-Cenozoic global cooling
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a Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA b Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA c Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA d Departamente de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (CONICET), La Plata B1900FWA, Argentina
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تاریخ انتشار 2015