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The American Oligocene

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FOLLOWING from Dr. R. M. Stainforth's comments on our communication, we would direct attention to the fact that it contained merely some of the conclusions reached in our study of “Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Palæontology”, which will be published as an entire, illustrated book, and it is obvious that we could not give the full background in such a short space. However, the following is a very brief outline of part of the picture which has emerged from our studies.

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EAMES, F., BANNER, F., BLOW, W. et al. The American Oligocene. Nature 187, 679–680 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187679a0

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