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Article: Late Ordovician brachiopods from eastern North Greenland: equatorial offshore migration of the Red River fauna

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2013
Page(s): 359 – 379
Author(s): Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen
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RASMUSSEN, C. M. . 2013. Late Ordovician brachiopods from eastern North Greenland: equatorial offshore migration of the Red River fauna. Palaeontology, 56, 2, 359–379.

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