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Even More Earliest Isotopically Dated Mammuthus from North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Cary T. Madden*
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Center for Mastodon and Elephant ResearchP.O. Box 1197 El Prado, New Mexico 87529-1197
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