A new semi-automatic morphometric protocol for conodonts and a preliminary taxonomic application

Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 239-260

  Jones, David ^a   Purnell, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420008074     Document Type: Chapter

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