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Paper, 'Description of some species of the extinct genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary group (toxodontia) of hoofed quadrupeds to which that genus is referable' by Professor [Richard] Owen

Reference number: PT/47/1

Date: 1852

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of some species of the extinct genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary group (toxodontia) of hoofed quadrupeds, to which that genus is referable'.

Received by the Royal Society on 25 November 1852. Read 13 January 1853.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854.

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PT/47/1
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1852
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42 pages
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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Paper, 'Description of some species of the extinct genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary group (toxodontia) of hoofed quadrupeds to which that genus is referable' by Professor [Richard] Owen, 1852, PT/47/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_47_1/paper-description-of-some-species-of-the-extinct-genus-nesodon-with-remarks-on-the-primary-group-toxodontia-of-hoofed-quadrupeds-to-which-that-genus-is-referable-by-professor-richard-owen, accessed on 17 January 2025

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