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Systematics of a survivor: the Cambrian kingstoniid trilobite Blountia Walcott, 1916 across the Marjuman-Steptoean (Guzhangian-Paibian) extinction interval in Laurentian North America

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Westrop, Madison Armstrong Stephen R., Eoff, Jennifer D. (2020): Systematics of a survivor: the Cambrian kingstoniid trilobite Blountia Walcott, 1916 across the Marjuman-Steptoean (Guzhangian-Paibian) extinction interval in Laurentian North America. Zootaxa 4804 (1): 1-79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4804.1.1

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