Mesozoic and cenozoic decapod crustaceans from Venezuela and related trace-fossil assemblages

Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology: The Fossil Record of the Northern Neotropics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-128

  Aguilera, Orangel ^a   De Aguilera, Dione Rodrigues ^a   Vega, Francisco J ^b   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^c  

^a Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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