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Article: Calibrated diversity, tree topology and the mother of mass extinctions: the lesson of temnospondyls

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2008
Page(s): 1261 – 1288
Author(s): Marcello Ruta and Michael J. Benton
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RUTA, M., BENTON, M. J. 2008. Calibrated diversity, tree topology and the mother of mass extinctions: the lesson of temnospondyls. Palaeontology, 51, 6, 1261–1288.

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