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A Geometric Morphometric Approach in Assessing Paleontological Problems in Atrypid Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Evolution and Ecology

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Bose, R. (2013). A Geometric Morphometric Approach in Assessing Paleontological Problems in Atrypid Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Evolution and Ecology. In: Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology of Extinct Organisms. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31721-7_1

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