A revision of the fossil genus Miocepphus and other Miocene Alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) of the Western North Atlantic Ocean

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• The research for this paper was conducted at the Department of Biosystematics, Wageningen University and the National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis), Leiden, the Netherlands. E‐mail: [email protected]
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