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Article: Origin, evolution and classification of the new superorder Nepiomorphia (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lower Palaeozoic)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1341 – 1365
Author(s): Jiří Kříž
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Kříž, J. 2007. Origin, evolution and classification of the new superorder Nepiomorphia (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lower Palaeozoic). Palaeontology, 50, 6, 1341–1365.

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