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An Upper Carboniferous Fauna from the Amotape Mountains, North-Western Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. Dighton Thomas
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.

Extract

There are two well-preserved internal moulds in the collection which are very close indeed to the forms referred to Meek's species by Girty, but unfortunately nothing is known of the external ornamentation of the Peruvian specimens.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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