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Article: Bryozoan mud-mounds from the Upper Ordovician Jifarah (Djeffara) Formation of Tripolitania, north-west Libya

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2007
Page(s): 479 – 494
Author(s): Caroline J. Buttler, Lesley Cherns and Dominique Massa
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BUTTLER, C. J., CHERNS, L., MASSA, D. 2007. Bryozoan mud-mounds from the Upper Ordovician Jifarah (Djeffara) Formation of Tripolitania, north-west Libya. Palaeontology, 50, 2, 479–494.

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