Intraspecific variability in paradoxidid trilobites from the Purujosa trilobite assemblage (middle Cambrian, northeast Spain)
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Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Trilobites in Kuhbanan Formation in the Akbar-Abad Section (North of Kerman)
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0567-7920
DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0006