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Article: Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2011
Page(s): 1117 – 1137
Author(s): Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrecht, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Müller
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RUTA, M., CISNEROS, J. C., LIEBRECHT, T., TSUJI, L. A., MÃœLLER, J. 2011. Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology, 54, 5, 1117–1137.

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