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Article: Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2011
Page(s): 711 – 719
Author(s): Jakob Vinther, M. Paul Smith and David A. T. Harper
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VINTHER, J., SMITH, M., HARPER, D. A. T. 2011. Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes. Palaeontology, 54, 3, 711–719.

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