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A Lower Devonian stylonurid eurypterid from Arctic Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Roy E. Plotnick
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Box 4348, Chicago 60680
David K. Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Box 4099, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 86011

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Taxonomic Notes
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