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Article: A new spinicaudatan genus (Crustacea: 'Conchostraca') from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2008
Page(s): 1053 – 1067
Author(s): Alycia L. Stigall and Joseph H. Hartman
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STIGALL, A. L., HARTMAN, J. H. 2008. A new spinicaudatan genus (Crustacea: 'Conchostraca') from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Palaeontology, 51, 5, 1053–1067.

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