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Article: Ontogeny of the eodiscoid trilobite Tsunyidiscus acutus from the Lower Cambrian of South China

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2011
Page(s): 1279 1288
Author(s): Tao Dai and Xingliang Zhang
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DAI, T., ZHANG, X. 2011. Ontogeny of the eodiscoid trilobite Tsunyidiscus acutus from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Palaeontology54, 6, 1279–1288.

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