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Article: Cladal Turnover: the end-Ordovician as a large-scale analogue of species turnover

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2013
Page(s): 1285 – 1296
Author(s): Curtis R. Congreve
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CONGREVE, C. R. 2013. Cladal Turnover: the end-Ordovician as a large-scale analogue of species turnover. Palaeontology, 56, 6, 1285–1296.

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