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Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results

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Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele, Kovar-Eder, Johanna (2022): Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results. Fossil Imprint 78 (1): 157-188, DOI: 10.37520/fi.2022.007, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.007

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