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Article: The Ramonalinids: a new family of mound-building bivalves of the Early Middle Triassic

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2009
Page(s): 1349 – 1361
Author(s): Thomas E. Yancey, Mark A. Wilson and Allison C. S. Mione
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YANCEY, T. E., WILSON, M. A., MIONE, A. C. S. 2009. The Ramonalinids: a new family of mound-building bivalves of the Early Middle Triassic. Palaeontology, 52, 6, 1349–1361.

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