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Article: Pleistocene extinctions of deep-sea benthic foraminifera: the South Atlantic record

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2007
Page(s): 1073 – 1102
Author(s): Tanya A. O'Neill, Bruce W. Hayward, Shungo Kawagata, Ashwaq T. Sabaa and Hugh R. Grenfell
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O'NEILL, T. A., HAYWARD, B. W., KAWAGATA, S., SABAA, A. T., GRENFELL, H. R. 2007. Pleistocene extinctions of deep-sea benthic foraminifera: the South Atlantic record. Palaeontology, 50, 5, 1073–1102.

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