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Article: The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2009
Page(s): 1221 – 1241
Author(s): Diego C. García-Bellido, John R. Paterson, Gregory D. Edgecombe, James B. Jago, James G. Gehling and Michael S. Y. Lee
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GARCÍA-BELLIDO, D. C., PATERSON, J. R., EDGECOMBE, G. D., JAGO, J. B., GEHLING, J. G., LEE, M. S. Y. 2009. The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia). Palaeontology, 52, 6, 1221–1241.

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