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... Late Permian ( about 230,000,000 years ago ) and almost undoubtedly was ancestral to lizards . Modern lizards differ from their ancestors in several skeletal fea- tures , the most diagnostic differences being in the con- struction of ...
... Late Permian ( about 230,000,000 years ago ) and almost undoubtedly was ancestral to lizards . Modern lizards differ from their ancestors in several skeletal fea- tures , the most diagnostic differences being in the con- struction of ...
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... late 1971 . The autocratic military - dominated regime faced mount- ing problems in the early 1970s . Internally , while the economy continued to expand , social and regional im- balances grew more marked ; externally , American with ...
... late 1971 . The autocratic military - dominated regime faced mount- ing problems in the early 1970s . Internally , while the economy continued to expand , social and regional im- balances grew more marked ; externally , American with ...
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... Late Silurian salt and gypsum deposits of New York State and the Michigan Basin originated . If deposits , interpreted as glacial , in Bolivia , northern Argentina , and Africa prove to be basal Silurian , they would suggest conditions ...
... Late Silurian salt and gypsum deposits of New York State and the Michigan Basin originated . If deposits , interpreted as glacial , in Bolivia , northern Argentina , and Africa prove to be basal Silurian , they would suggest conditions ...
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