Acid-resistant Cretaceous thecamoebian tests from the Arabian Peninsula: a suggestion for study of agglutinated rhizopods in palynological slides

Kumar, Arun

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01 May 2011

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Acid-resistant Cretaceous thecamoebian tests from the Arabian Peninsula: a suggestion for study of agglutinated rhizopods in palynological slides

Arun Kumar

Center for Petroleum and Minerals, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

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