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Article: Cryptostomid bryozoans from the Sassito Formation, Upper Ordovician cool-water carbonates of the Argentinean Precordillera

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2008
Page(s): 1117 – 1127
Author(s): Andrej Ernst and Marcelo Carrera
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ERNST, A., CARRERA, M. 2008. Cryptostomid bryozoans from the Sassito Formation, Upper Ordovician cool-water carbonates of the Argentinean Precordillera. Palaeontology, 51, 5, 1117–1127.

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