Short Communication First Atlantic Record of the Puffin Cerorhinca (aves, Alcidae) from the Pliocene of North Carolina
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N. ADAM SMITH,"-' STORRS L. OLSON,^ and JULIA A. CLARKE^'^; ^North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Eartli and Atmospheric Sciences, Campus Box 8208, Raleigli, Nortii Carolina 27695-8208 U.S.A., [email protected]; ^National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20560-0131 U.S.A., [email protected]; ^North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones St., Raleigh, North Carolina 27601-1029 U.S.A., [email protected].
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تاریخ انتشار 2008