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Original Article

The trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia: systematics, ontogeny and soft-part anatomy

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Pages 295-334 | Received 27 Dec 2018, Accepted 28 Mar 2019, Published online: 12 Jun 2019

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