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Kranendonk, Martin J.; Lindsay, John F.; Steele, Andrew; Grassineau, Nathalie V. (2002). "Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils".
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Conophyton from the Soviet Union and Their Bearing on Precambrian Biostratigraphy".
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