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Article: An Eocene frogfish from Monte Bolca, Italy: the earliest known skeletal record for the family

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2009
Page(s): 745 – 752
Author(s): Giorgio Carnevale and Theodore W. Pietsch
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CARNEVALE, G., PIETSCH, T. W. 2009. An Eocene frogfish from Monte Bolca, Italy: the earliest known skeletal record for the family. Palaeontology, 52, 4, 745–752.

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