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Trilobite diversity and the Ordovician Radiation: a reply to Miller et al.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Stephen R. Westrop  and
Jonathan M. Adrain
Stephen R. Westrop
Affiliation:
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019. E-mail: swestrop@ou.edu
Jonathan M. Adrain
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom. E-mail: j.adrain@nhm.ac.uk
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Paleobiology , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 1998 , pp. 529 - 533
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