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Article: A new reconstruction of Onychoselache traquairi, comments on early chondrichthyan pectoral girdles and hybodontiform phylogeny

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1421 – 1446
Author(s): Michael I. Coates and Robert W. Gess
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COATES, M. I., GESS, R. W. 2007. A new reconstruction of Onychoselache traquairi, comments on early chondrichthyan pectoral girdles and hybodontiform phylogeny. Palaeontology, 50, 6, 1421–1446.

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