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New brachyuran crabs from the Aptian-Albian Romualdo Formation, Santana Group of Brazil: Evidence for a Tethyan connection to the Araripe Basin

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Prado, Ludmila A.C., Luque, Javier, Barreto, Alcina M.F., Palmer, A. Richard (2018): New brachyuran crabs from the Aptian-Albian Romualdo Formation, Santana Group of Brazil: Evidence for a Tethyan connection to the Araripe Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (4): 737-750, DOI: 10.4202/app.00480.2018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00480.2018

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