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... South America , occupy one- third of Venezuela and about one - fifth of Colombia . The Llanos are delimited by the Andes Mountains in the west and north , the Lower Orinoco River and the Guiana Highlands in the east , and the Río ...
... South America , occupy one- third of Venezuela and about one - fifth of Colombia . The Llanos are delimited by the Andes Mountains in the west and north , the Lower Orinoco River and the Guiana Highlands in the east , and the Río ...
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... South America was an island from Paleo- cene to Pliocene . Invasions by placentals in later Ceno- zoic times reduced the once flourishing South America marsupial fauna to the remnant extant today . The South American and Australian ...
... South America was an island from Paleo- cene to Pliocene . Invasions by placentals in later Ceno- zoic times reduced the once flourishing South America marsupial fauna to the remnant extant today . The South American and Australian ...
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... South America from a Cretaceous didelphid - like mammal . Necrolestoids . One fossil with a molelike adaptation , called Necrolestes , is known from the Miocene of Pata- gonia . It is the only known genus referable to the family ...
... South America from a Cretaceous didelphid - like mammal . Necrolestoids . One fossil with a molelike adaptation , called Necrolestes , is known from the Miocene of Pata- gonia . It is the only known genus referable to the family ...
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