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Article: The capsule: an organic skeletal structure in the Late Cretaceous belemnite Gonioteuthis from north-west Germany

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2011
Page(s): 397 – 415
Author(s): Larisa A. Doguzhaeva and Stefan Bengtson
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DOGUZHAEVA, L. A., BENGTSON, S. 2011. The capsule: an organic skeletal structure in the Late Cretaceous belemnite Gonioteuthis from north-west Germany. Palaeontology, 54, 2, 397–415.

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