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Article: Diverse middle Ordovician palaeoscolecidan worms from the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier of central Wales

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 55
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2012
Page(s): 501 – 528
Author(s): Joseph P. Botting, Lucy A. Muir, Peter Van Roy, Denis Bates and Christopher Upton
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BOTTING, J. P., MUIR, L. A., ROY, P., BATES, D., UPTON, C. 2012. Diverse middle Ordovician palaeoscolecidan worms from the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier of central Wales. Palaeontology, 55, 3, 501–528.

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