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- ↑ Stewart, J., 2011. Antarctica: An Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Jefferson, North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company, Inc. 1771 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6
- ↑ Jago, J.B. and Cooper, R.A., 2007. Middle Cambrian trilobites from Reilly Ridge, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 34, pp.473-487.
- ↑ Jago, J.B., Bentley, C.J. and Cooper, R.A., 2019. Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Bowers back-arc basin, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica—A review.Palaeoworld, 28(3), pp.276-288.
