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Article: Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, northern India)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1485 – 1518
Author(s): Thomas J. Suttner and Andrej Ernst
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SUTTNER, T. J., ERNST, A. 2007. Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, northern India). Palaeontology, 50, 6, 1485–1518.

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