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Late Ordovician scolecodonts and chitinozoans from the Pin Valley in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, northern India

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Tonarová, Petra, Suttner, Thomas J., Hints, Olle, Liang, Yan, Zemek, Marek, Kubajko, Michal, Zikmund, Tomáš, Kaiser, Jozef, Kido, Erika (2024): Late Ordovician scolecodonts and chitinozoans from the Pin Valley in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (2): 199-215, DOI: 10.4202/app.01135.2024, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.01135.2024

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