First Report of Snakes (serpentes) from the Late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar
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JASON J. HEAD , PATRICIA A. HOLROYD, J. HOWARD HUTCHISON, and RUSSELL L. CIOCHON, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20012–7012, USA, [email protected]; School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom; Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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