Morphology and palaeoecology of a primitive mound-forming tubicolous polychaete from the Ordovician of the Ottawa Valley, Canada

Palaeontology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-145

  Steele Petrovich, H Miriam ^a   Bolton, Thomas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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