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Identification of fossil worm tubes from Phanerozoic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps

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  • 1. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom; & School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom;
  • 2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom;
  • 3. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom;
  • 4. Core Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • 5. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom;

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Georgieva, Magdalena N., Little, Crispin T. S., Watson, Jonathan S., Sephton, Mark A., Ball, Alexander D., Glover, Adrian G. (2019): Identification of fossil worm tubes from Phanerozoic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17 (4): 287-329, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1412362, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1412362

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