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Latest Cretaceous multituberculates of the Black Butte Station local fauna (Lance Formation, southwestern Wyoming), with implications for compositional differences among mammalian local faunas of the Western Interior

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Pages 677-695 | Received 10 Apr 2012, Accepted 26 Oct 2012, Published online: 07 May 2013

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