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RECENT reviews1–3 have set out the facts of the present bio-geographical distribution of marsupials and of the known fossil record. The oldest fossils are from Cretaceous beds along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains from Alberta to Texas1,4–6.
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MARTIN, P. The Darwin Rise Hypothesis of the Biogeographical Dispersal of Marsupials. Nature 225, 197–198 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225197a0
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