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Article: First record of the Indo-Pacific reef coral genus Isopora in the Caribbean region: two new species from the Neogene of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 51
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2008
Page(s): 1387 – 1401
Author(s): Ann F. Budd and Carden C. Wallace
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BUDD, A. F., WALLACE, C. C. 2008. First record of the Indo-Pacific reef coral genus Isopora in the Caribbean region: two new species from the Neogene of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Palaeontology, 51, 6, 1387–1401.

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