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Limb bone proportions, strength and digging in some Lujanian (Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene) mylodontid ground sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra)

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Pages 601-610 | Received 09 Sep 1998, Accepted 15 Mar 2000, Published online: 24 Aug 2010

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