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Article: Palaeoctopus pelagicus from the Turonian of Mexico reinterpreted as a coelacanth (Sarcopterygian) gular plate

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 53
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2010
Page(s): 689 – 694
Author(s): Hans-Peter Schultze, Dirk Fuchs, Samuel Giersch, Christina Ifrim and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
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SCHULTZE, H., FUCHS, D., GIERSCH, S., IFRIM, C., STINNESBECK, W. 2010. Palaeoctopus pelagicus from the Turonian of Mexico reinterpreted as a coelacanth (Sarcopterygian) gular plate. Palaeontology, 53, 3, 689–694.

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