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Article: First report of craniide brachiopods in the Palaeozoic of Iran (Pseudocrania, Ordovician), and Early to Mid-Ordovician biogeography of the Craniida

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2013
Page(s): 209 – 216
Author(s): Michael G. Bassett, Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Leonid E. Popov and Mohammad-Reza Kebria-ee Zadeh
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BASSETT, M. G., POUR, M., POPOV, L. E., ZADEH, M. 2013. First report of craniide brachiopods in the Palaeozoic of Iran (Pseudocrania, Ordovician), and Early to Mid-Ordovician biogeography of the Craniida. Palaeontology, 56, 1, 209–216.

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