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Twelve new species of calcareous foraminifers of the genera Parathurammina, Parathuramminites, Bisphaera, Archaesphaera, and Vicinesphaera from the Lower Ordovician of the Middle Tien Shan are described.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Sabirov, S.B. Gushchin, 2006, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2006, No. 1, pp. 13–19.
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Sabirov, A.A., Gushchin, S.B. New early Ordovician calcareous foraminifers of the middle Tien Shan. Paleontol. J. 40, 11–19 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030106010023
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