New observations on the ecology of the Permian Capitan reef, Texas and New Mexico

Palaeontology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 733-762

  Wood, Rachel ^a   Dickson, J A D ^a   Kirkland, Brenda L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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