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- ↑ Description d'un nouveau genre de Rongeurs provenant des Phosphorites du Quercy. H Filhol, Bulletin de la Socíeté philomathique du Paris, series, 1883
- ↑ Observations relatives au Mémoire de M. Cope, intitulé: Relations des Horizons renfermant des débris d'Animaux vertébrés fossiles en Europe et en Amérique. H Filhol, 1884
