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Tetrapod origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

E. B. Daeschler  and
Neil Shubin
E. B. Daeschler
Affiliation:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103 and Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Neil Shubin
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6017, and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
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Paleobiology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Fall 1995 , pp. 404 - 409
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