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Title: Discovery of Fish Mortality Horizon at the K-T Boundary on Seymour Island: Re-Evaluation of Events at the End of the Cretaceous.

Authors: Zinsmeister, W. J.

Citation: Zinsmeister, W. J. 1998. Discovery of Fish Mortality Horizon at the K-T Boundary on Seymour Island: Re-Evaluation of Events at the End of the Cretaceous. Journal of Paleontology 72, no. 3: 556-71.

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