Article: Reply to comments on Retallack 2011: Problematic megafossils in Cambrian Palaeosols of South Australia
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
55
Part:
4
Publication Date:
July
2012
Page(s):
919
–
212
Author(s):
Gregory J. Retallack
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