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Article: Sclerotic plates or circumorbital bones in early jawed fishes?

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2011
Page(s): 207 – 214
Author(s): Carole J. Burrow, Michael J. Newman, Robert G. Davidson and Jan L. den Blaauwen
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BURROW, C. J., NEWMAN, M. J., DAVIDSON, R. G., BLAAUWEN, J. L. 2011. Sclerotic plates or circumorbital bones in early jawed fishes?. Palaeontology, 54, 1, 207–214.

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