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Article: Fossil isopods associated with a fish skeleton from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia – direct evidence of a scavenging lifestyle in Mesozoic Cymothoida

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2011
Page(s): 1053 1068
Author(s): George D. F. Wilson, John R. Paterson and Benjamin P. Kear
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WILSON, G. D. F., PATERSON, J. R., KEAR, B. P. 2011. Fossil isopods associated with a fish skeleton from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia – direct evidence of a scavenging lifestyle in Mesozoic Cymothoida. Palaeontology54, 5, 1053–1068.

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