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      <page pageid="1674" ns="0" title="Reade, 1839">
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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">Reade, J.B., 1839:
On some new organic remains in the flint of Chalk.  Annals of Natural History, v.2, p.191-198, pl.8-9.
[[Category:References]]
[[Category:Index]]
[[Category:Suprageneric]]</rev>
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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">When a &lt;I&gt;[[plate]]&lt;/I&gt; in one &lt;I&gt;[[series]]&lt;/I&gt; contacts only one plate in an adjacent series, the boundary is rectilinear. See also &lt;I&gt;[[monothigmate]]&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;I&gt;[[geniculate]]&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;[[planate]]&lt;/I&gt;.
[[Category:Glossary]]</rev>
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