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Crisis in systematic biology in the “Age of Biodiversity”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Rodney M. Feldmann  and
Raymond B. Manning
Rodney M. Feldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Raymond B. Manning
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 157 - 158
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