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Article: A crown-group demosponge from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 58
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2015
Page(s): 35 – 43
Author(s): Joseph P. Botting, Paco Cárdenas and John S. Peel
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BOTTING, J.P., CÁRDENAS, P. PEEL, J.S. 2015. A crown-group demosponge from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland. Palaeontology, 58, 1, 35-43.

Author Information

  • Joseph P. Botting - Llandrindod, UK (email: acutipuerilis@yahoo.co.uk)
  • Joseph P. Botting - Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
  • Paco Cárdenas - Department of Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden  (email: paco.cardenas@fkog.uu.se)
  • Paco Cárdenas - Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BioMedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • John S. Peel - Department of Earth Sciences (Palaeobiology), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden  (email: john.peel@pal.uu.se)

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 7 JAN 2015
  • Article first published online: 20 OCT 2014
  • Manuscript Accepted: 19 SEP 2014
  • Manuscript Received: 25 MAY 2014

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Department of Earth Sciences (Palaeobiology), Uppsala University
Swedish Research Council
Swedish Taxonomy Initiative

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