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Article: A giant lucinid bivalve from the Eocene of Jamaica-Systematics, life habits and chemosymbiosis (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2009
Page(s): 95 – 109
Author(s): John D. Taylor and Emily A. Glover
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TAYLOR, J. D., GLOVER, E. A. 2009. A giant lucinid bivalve from the Eocene of Jamaica-Systematics, life habits and chemosymbiosis (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Palaeontology, 52, 1, 95–109.

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