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Post-extinction survivor fauna from the lowermost Famennian of eastern North America

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Day, Jed, Over, D. Jeffrey (2002): Post-extinction survivor fauna from the lowermost Famennian of eastern North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47 (2): 189-202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13174914

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