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A skull of the extinct tayassuid Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of southern Brazil: morphology and taxonomy

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Pages 1898-1910 | Received 13 Feb 2020, Accepted 01 Apr 2020, Published online: 30 Apr 2020

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