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Article: Morphology and ontogeny of the eodiscoid trilobite Sinodiscus changyangensis from the lower Cambrian of South China

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2013
Page(s): 411 420
Author(s): Tao Dai and Xingliang Zhang
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DAI, T., ZHANG, X. 2013. Morphology and ontogeny of the eodiscoid trilobite Sinodiscus changyangensis from the lower Cambrian of South China. Palaeontology56, 2, 411–420.

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