A new Burgess Shale-type locality in the "thin" Stephen Formation, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia: Stratigraphie and paleoenvironmental setting

Palaeontographica Canadiana

Volumn , Issue 31, 2011, Pages 73-88

  Gaines, Robert R ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

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