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Article: High-latitude Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) brachiopods from the Eusebio Ayala Formation of Paraguay, Paraná Basin

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2013
Page(s): 61 – 78
Author(s): Juan L. Benedetto, Karen Halpern and Julio C. Galeano Inchausti
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BENEDETTO, J. L., HALPERN, K., INCHAUSTI, J. C. 2013. High-latitude Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) brachiopods from the Eusebio Ayala Formation of Paraguay, Paraná Basin. Palaeontology, 56, 1, 61–78.

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