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Article: Life mode of in situ Conularia in a Middle Devonian epibole

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2013
Page(s): 29 – 48
Author(s): Heyo Van Iten, Victor P. Tollerton Jr, Charles A. Ver Straeten, Juliana De Moraes Leme, Marcello Guimaraes Simões and Sabrina Coelho Rodrigues
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ITEN, H., JR, V. P., STRAETEN, C. A., DE LEME, J., SIMES, M., RODRIGUES, S. 2013. Life mode of in situ Conularia in a Middle Devonian epibole. Palaeontology, 56, 1, 29–48.

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