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Feeding behavior of giant trilobites from the Penha Garcia Ichnological Park (UNESCO Naturtejo Global Geopark, Portugal)

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The authors are very grateful to the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Wolf-Christian Dullo, and especially Donald Goldstein, for the very positive comments and for improving the final version of the manuscript.

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  1. UNESCO Naturtejo Global Geopark-Geology Office of the Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova, Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

    Carlos Neto de Carvalho & Andrea Baucon

  2. Instituto D. Luiz, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Carlos Neto de Carvalho

  3. DISTAV, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

    Andrea Baucon

  4. Department of Earth Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran

    Aram Bayet-Goll

  5. Geo-environment and Geoheritage Group, Geology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco

    Mohamed Abioui

  6. “Monachus” Group of Scientific Research and Ecological Education, Constanta, Romania

    Mohamed Abioui

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de Carvalho, C.N., Baucon, A., Bayet-Goll, A. et al. Feeding behavior of giant trilobites from the Penha Garcia Ichnological Park (UNESCO Naturtejo Global Geopark, Portugal). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 109, 2825–2827 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01912-x

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