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Ghost taxa, ancestors, and assumptions: a comment on Wagner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell*
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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at Seventy-ninth Street, New York, New York, 10024-5192
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Paleobiology , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996 , pp. 453 - 455
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