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Article: Patterns of evolution and extinction in proetid trilobites during the late Devonian mass extinction event, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2013
Page(s): 229 – 259
Author(s): Raimund Feist and Kenneth J. McNamara
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FEIST, R., MCNAMARA, K. J. 2013. Patterns of evolution and extinction in proetid trilobites during the late Devonian mass extinction event, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Palaeontology, 56, 2, 229–259.

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