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Evolutionary significance of the retiolitine Gothograptus (Graptolithina) with four new species from the Silurian of the East European Platform (Baltica), Poland and Lithuania

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Kozłowska, Anna, Bates, Denis, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Radzevičius, Sigitas (2019): Evolutionary significance of the retiolitine Gothograptus (Graptolithina) with four new species from the Silurian of the East European Platform (Baltica), Poland and Lithuania. Zootaxa 4568 (3): 435-469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.2

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