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Contemporaneity of late Cretaceous extinctions

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    LEIGH VAN VALEN

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    ROBERT E. SLOAN

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VAN VALEN, L., SLOAN, R. Contemporaneity of late Cretaceous extinctions. Nature 270, 193 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/270193a0

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