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Chitinozoan biostratigraphy in the Dob's Linn Ordovician-Silurian GSSP, Southern Uplands, Scotland

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Pages 195-202 | Received 15 Aug 2005, Accepted 22 Jun 2006, Published online: 06 Aug 2009

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