Architecture and functional morphology of the skeletal apparatus of ozarkodinid conodonts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1361, 1997, Pages 1545-1564

  Purnell, Mark A ^a   Don, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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ANIMALIA; IDIOGNATHODUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031434847     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0141     Document Type: Article

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