Article: Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 1969
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
55
Part:
3
Publication Date:
May
2012
Page(s):
661
–
676
Author(s):
Duncan J. E. Murdock, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Stefan Bengtson and Federica Marone
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