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Article: Fossil diagenesis in the Burgess Shale

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2007
Page(s): 537 – 543
Author(s): Nicholas J. Butterfield, Uwe Balthasar and Lucy A. Wilson
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BUTTERFIELD, N. J., BALTHASAR, U., WILSON, L. A. 2007. Fossil diagenesis in the Burgess Shale. Palaeontology, 50, 3, 537–543.

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