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Article: Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2011
Page(s): 1337 – 1346
Author(s): Rodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Benjamin Dattilo and James O. Farlow
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FELDMANN, R. M., SCHWEITZER, C. E., DATTILO, B., FARLOW, J. O. 2011. Remarkable preservation of a new genus and species of limuline horseshoe crab from the Cretaceous of Texas, USA. Palaeontology, 54, 6, 1337–1346.

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