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Article: Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation of Hydra Island, Greece

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2009
Page(s): 713 743
Author(s): Shu-Zhong Shen and Matthew E. Clapham
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SHEN, S., CLAPHAM, M. E. 2009. Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation of Hydra Island, Greece. Palaeontology52, 4, 713–743.

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