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Article: A specimen of Curculioninae (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, north-eastern Brazil

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2011
Page(s): 807 – 814
Author(s): Márcia Fernandes De Aquino Santos, José Ricardo M. Mermudes and Vera Maria Medina Da Fonseca
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DE SANTOS, M., MERMUDES, J. M., FONSECA, V. 2011. A specimen of Curculioninae (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, north-eastern Brazil. Palaeontology, 54, 4, 807–814.

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