Problems for taxonomic analysis using intracrystalline amino acids: an example using brachiopods

Palaeontology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 753-770

  Walton, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

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