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Article: An Early Cenozoic neoselachian shark fauna from the Southwest Pacific

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2008
Page(s): 1341 – 1365
Author(s): Al A. Mannering and Norton Hiller
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MANNERING, A. A., HILLER, N. 2008. An Early Cenozoic neoselachian shark fauna from the Southwest Pacific. Palaeontology, 51, 6, 1341–1365.

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