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Article: A new dipnoan fish from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) of Scotland

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2007
Page(s): 1403 – 1419
Author(s): M. J. Newman and J. L. den Blaauwen
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NEWMAN, M. J., BLAAUWEN, J. L. 2007. A new dipnoan fish from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) of Scotland. Palaeontology, 50, 6, 1403–1419.

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