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Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania

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The fossil freshwater mollusks described and analyzed in this chapter were collected by members of the Wembere-Manonga Paleontological Expedition (WMPE) in the Manonga Valley during the 1992 and 1994 field seasons. The following list summarizes basic information about the seven localities from which fossil mollusks were obtained. The abbreviations in parentheses are those used in Table I.

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Damme, D.v., Gautier, A. (1997). Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In: Harrison, T. (eds) Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Topics in Geobiology, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2683-1_12

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