Late Middle Cambrian trilobites of Siberian aspect from the Farewell terrane, southwestern Alaska

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1574, 1997, Pages 269-281

  St John, James M ^a   Babcock, Loren E ^a  

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