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The planktic foraminifer Planorotalites in the Tethyan middle Eocene
Flavia Boscolo Galazzo
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131, Padova, Italy
Ellen Thomas
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
Valeria Luciani
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Luca Giusberti
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131, Padova, Italy
Fabrizio Frontalini
Department of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, Urbino, Italy
Rodolfo Coccioni
Department of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, Urbino, Italy
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