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Article: Stromatoporoid palaeoecology in the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Belgian platform, and its applications in interpretation of carbonate platform environments

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2011
Page(s): 883 – 905
Author(s): Anne-Christine Da Silva, Stephen Kershaw and Frederic Boulvain
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SILVA, A., KERSHAW, S., BOULVAIN, F. 2011. Stromatoporoid palaeoecology in the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Belgian platform, and its applications in interpretation of carbonate platform environments. Palaeontology, 54, 4, 883–905.

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