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Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences

ISSN 1736-7557 (Electronic)
ISSN 1736-4728 (Print)

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Vol 72, Issue 1, 2023

Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on the Ordovician System. Guest Editors: Tõnu Meidla and Peep Männik

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Foreword; p. 5

Tõnu Meidla, David A. T. Harper, Thomas Servais

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Advances in the Lower Ordovician of the western Iberian Chain, NE Spain; pp. 6–9

J. Javier Álvaro, Blanca Martínez-Benítez

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Ordovician collections stored at the National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine; pp. 10–13

Galyna Anfimova, Volodymyr Grytsenko

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Using 3-D mapping to understand an Upper Ordovician buildup and facies complex in the upper Lexington Limestone, central Kentucky, USA; pp. 14–17

Sean Davis, Frank R. Ettensohn, William M. Andrews, Gustavo Martins

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The Evae transgression: a major event?; pp. 18–21

Gisella M. Della Costa, Guillermo L. Albanesi

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Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolites from the northern margin of the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai, China); pp. 22–25

Liting Deng, Ming Li, Mo Huang

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Solutan echinoderms from the Lower Ordovician of the Montagne Noire (France): new data and palaeobiogeographic implications; pp. 26–29

Christophe Dupichaud, Bertrand Lefebvre, Martina Nohejlová

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Tectonic, foreland-basin origins of Upper Ordovician black gas shales in the Appalachian Basin of eastern United States; pp. 30–33

Frank R. Ettensohn, Gustavo Martins

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Early diagenetic transformation stages revealed by micro-analytical studies of shelly phosphorites, Rakvere region; pp. 34–37

Sophie Graul, Toivo Kallaste, Marko Moilanen, Mawo Ndiaye, Rutt Hints

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The Irish Ordovician brachiopod fauna: A taxonomic renaissance; pp. 38–41

David A. T. Harper

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Latest Sandbian brachiopods and chitinozoan biostratigraphy in North Estonia; pp. 42–45

Linda Hints, Jaak Nõlvak

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A diverse Hirnantian scolecodont assemblage from northern Estonia and resilience of polychaetes to the end-Ordovician mass extinction; pp. 46–49

Olle Hints, Petra Tonarová

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A remarkable new halichondrid demosponge, Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis, from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota, South China; pp. 50–53

Lixia Li, Joachim Reitner

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Tremadocian (Ordovician) reclined graptolites from Baishan, North China; pp. 54–57

Ming Li, Pengju Liu, Liting Deng, Lixia Li

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On future directions of Ordovician chitinozoan research; pp. 58–61

Yan Liang, Olle Hints, Jaak Nõlvak, Peng Tang

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New contributions to the Ordovician biostratigraphy of the Western Precordillera, Argentina; pp. 62–65

Fernando E. Lopez, Gladys Ortega, Guillermo L. Albanesi, Aldo L. Banchig

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Boundary between the Porkuni and Juuru regional stages in the Neitla section, Estonia; pp. 66–69

Peep Männik, Jaak Nõlvak

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Searching for the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; pp. 70–73

Tõnu Meidla, Olle Hints, Leho Ainsaar

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A new species of the problematic organism Webbyites from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota of Morocco; pp. 74–77

Lucy A. Muir, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco

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Nitrogen and organic carbon isotope record in Tremadocian highly metalliferous black shales from Baltica; pp. 78–81

Mawo Ndiaye, Merlin Liiv, Toivo Kallaste, Sophie Graul, Rutt Hints

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Latest Ordovician age of the Spinachitina fragilis Chitinozoan Biozone in Baltoscandia; pp. 82–85

Jaak Nõlvak, Yan Liang, Olle Hints

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First report of the mitrate Mitrocystella (Echinodermata, Stylophora) in the Middle Ordovician of the Crozon Peninsula, Brittany (France); pp. 86–89

Maxime Renaud, Bertrand Lefebvre, Denis Bailliot, Marie-Noëlle Bailliot, Sophie Coat, Christian Gaudu†, Muriel Vidal

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Early Tremadocian graptolites from the Arivechi area, Sonora, northern Mexico; pp. 90–93

Dulce Raquel Reyes-Montoya, Francisco Javier Cuen-Romero, Pilar Navas-Parejo, Nohemí Gámez-Meza, Juan José Palafox-Reyes, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco

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The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 466 Ma and its terrestrial effects – a search for a mid-Ordovician biodiversity event; pp. 94–97

Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt

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Diversification and speciation among Laurentian brachiopods during the GOBE: insights from basinal and regional analyses; pp. 98–101

Alycia L. Stigall, Shaolin M. Censullo, Sarah A. Hennessey, Jennifer E. Bauer, Adriane R. Lam, David F. Wright

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An evo-devo perspective on no Ordovician land plants; pp. 102–105

Paul K. Strother

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Ichnogenus Trypanites in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica); pp. 106–109

Ursula Toom, Jukka Kuva, Dirk Knaust

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Parasite-induced shell damage in brachiopod Porambonites (Porambonites) laticaudata from the Late Ordovician (Sandbian) of Estonia; pp. 110–113

Olev Vinn, Kenneth De Baets, Mare Isakar, Ursula Toom

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Ordovician stratigraphy of the Junee–Narromine Volcanic Belt in central New South Wales, Australia: conodont studies and regional correlations; pp. 114–117

Yong Yi Zhen, Ian G. Percival

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Age of the Ordovician sedimentary succession in Lumparn Bay, Åland Islands, Finland; p. 118

Leho Ainsaar, Tõnu Meidla

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Three-dimensionally preserved siphuncle in an actinoceratid cephalopod from the late Katian of Bohemia; p. 119

Martina Aubrechtová, Vojtěch Turek

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Ordovician conulariid monospecific assemblages (Czech Republic, Morocco); p. 120

Jana Bruthansová, Petr Kraft

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Subway into the Ordovician (Prague Basin, Czech Republic); p. 121

Jana Bruthansová, Petr Kraft, Jiří Bruthans

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The ichnologic signature of deep-sea colonization during the Ordovician radiation; p. 122

Luis A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano, Maximiliano Paz, Nicholas J. Minter, Kai Zhou

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Chitinozoan nomenclature and databases; p. 123

Sonia Camina, Olle Hints, Anthony Butcher

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Biogeographic dynamics of graptolite species during the end-Ordovician mass extinction in South China; p. 124

Qing Chen, Linna Zhang

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Ordovician conodonts from the Ban Tha Kradan area, Western Thailand; p. 125

Zhongyang Chen, Wenjie Li, Xiang Fang, Chao Li, Clive Burrett, Mongkol Udchachon, Yuandong Zhang

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Lower–Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance; p. 126

Jorge Colmenar, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, César Augusto Chacaltana

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Ordovician Bryozoa of Estonia; p. 127

Andrej Ernst

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Upper Ordovician chronostratigraphic correlation between the Appalachian and Midcontinent basins; p. 128

Cristiana J. P. Esteves, Patrick I. McLaughlin, Alyssa M. Bancroft, Thomas W. Wong Hearing, Mark Williams, Jahandar Ramezani, Poul Emsbo, Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke

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Late Ordovician gastropods from the Zhaolaoyu Formation in the southwestern margin of the North China Platform; p. 129

Rao Fu, Yue Liang, Lars E. Holmer, Yutong Lu, Yi Xiang, Yazhou Hu, Zhifei Zhang

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A methodological scheme to analyse the early Palaeozoic biodiversification with the example of echinoderms; p. 130

Pauline Guenser, Martina Nohejlová, Elise Nardin, Bertrand Lefebvre

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The Ordovician System: From overlapping unit stratotypes to Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points; p. 131

David A. T. Harper, Tõnu Meidla, Thomas Servais

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Siphonotretoid brachiopods – a thorny problem; p. 132

Lars E. Holmer, Leonid E. Popov, Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Yue Liang, Zhifei Zhang

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Distinguishing borings and burrows in intraclasts; p. 133

Yazhou Hu, Luke C. Strotz, Dirk Knaust, Jiayue Wang, Yue Liang, Zhifei Zhang

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Coupled extinction–regression episodes revisited in mid-oceanic settings for comparative extinction study during the Palaeozoic in view of non-bolide extraterrestrial causes; p. 134

Yukio Isozaki

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The earliest known stromatoporoid and its contribution to reef construction; p. 135

Juwan Jeon, Jeong-Hyun Lee, Stephen Kershaw, Zhong-Yang Chen, Jun-Ye Ma, Kun Liang, Yuan-Dong Zhang

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Preservation of fossils in the Šárka Formation (Darriwilian, Czech Republic); p. 136

Petr Kraft, Jana Bruthansová

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Diversity and spatial turnover of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Vasalemma Formation (Late Ordovician), Estonia; p. 137

Björn Köger, Andrej Ernst, Amelia Penny, Hans Arne Nakrem, Ursula Toom

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Global palaeogeographical implication of acritarchs in the Upper Ordovician; p. 138

Yan Kui, Thomas Servais, Huang Bin, Li Jun, Shan Longlong

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Late Ordovician beachrock as a far-field indicator for glacial meltwater pulse; p. 139

Qijian Li, Lin Na, Shenyang Yu, Oliver Lehnert, Axel Munneck, Li Yue

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When lingulid brachiopods became infaunal(?) – perspectives from the morphological and anatomical information; p. 140

Yue Liang, Luke C. Strotz, Timothy P. Topper, Lars E. Holmer, Graham E. Budd, Yanlong Chen, Ruisen Fang, Yazhou Hu, Zhifei Zhang

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The morphological disparity, ecological evolution and palaeobiogeography of Palaeozoic hyoliths; p. 141

Fan Liu, Timothy P. Topper, Luke C. Strotz, Yue Liang, Christian B. Skovsted, Zhifei Zhang

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Impoverished fossil association in the lowermost Sandbian of the Prague Basin (Czech Republic); p. 142

Monika Luptáková, Petr Kraft

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Trilobite expansion into estuarine environments during the Ordovician radiation; p. 143

M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, Beatriz G. Waisfeld, Diego F. Muñoz, N. Emilio Vaccari, Ricardo A. Astini

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Ordovician climate changes in the northern subtropics: The δ¹⁸O record from the Tunguska Basin, Siberia; p. 144

Peep Männik, Oliver Lehnert, Michael M. Joachimski

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Palaeozoic carbon isotope excursions and carbonate component analysis; p. 145

Imre Andreas Martin, Leho Ainsaar, Aivo Lepland

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Ordovician scientometrics; p. 146

Alysson Mazoni, Rodrigo Costas, Carolina Zabini

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An Ordovician ostracod palaeopsychrosphere?; p. 147

Anna McGairy, Christopher P. Stocker, Mark Williams, Phong Duc Nguyen, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Toshifumi Komatsu, Dayou Zhai

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The late Katian Elkhorn event: precursor to the Late Ordovician mass extinction; p. 148

Patrick I. McLaughlin, Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke, Cristiana J. P. Esteves, Alyssa M. Bancroft, Timothy R. Paton, Mark Williams, Carlton E. Brett, Cole Farnam, Poul Emsbo

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Recent advances in the Ordovician stratigraphy of the Baltic Palaeobasin and Tornquist margin of Baltica; p. 149

Tõnu Meidla, Leho Ainsaar, Olle Hints, Sigitas Radzevičius

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Drivers of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction: redox, volcanism, atmospheric oxygen/carbon dioxide and/or glaciation; p. 150

Audrey Morrison, Amy Lefebvre, Ariel Van Patter, Alyssa Davis, Matthew Oelschlagel, Nigel Blamey, Jisuo Jin, Sylvia Riechelmann, Uwe Brand

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Changes in shelf phosphorus burial during the Hirnantian glaciation and its implications; p. 151

Johann Müller, Michael M. Joachimski, Oliver Lehnert, Peep Männik, Yadong Sun

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Echinoderm Lagerstätten from high-latitude Gondwana – filling the gap in the Ordovician diversification of the phylum; p. 152

Martina Nohejlová, Christophe Dupichaud, Bertrand Lefebvre, Elise Nardin, Farid Saleh

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Towards a revised Sandbian conodont biozonation of Baltica; p. 153

Tõnn Paiste, Peep Männik, Svend Stouge, Tõnu Meidla

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The earliest Ordovician trace fossils Cruziana and Rusophycus from Baltica; p. 154

Helje Pärnaste, Ursula Toom, Leonid E. Popov

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Upper Ordovician hardgrounds – from localized surfaces to global biogeochemical events; p. 155

Timothy R. Paton, Patrick I. McLaughlin, Poul Emsbo, Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke, Carlton E. Brett

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The Late Ordovician extinction conundrum; p. 156

Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen

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Where are all the Ordovician sea cucumbers (Echinodermata)?; p. 157

Mike Reich

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Middle–Late Ordovician organic- walled phytoplankton from Sweden: diversity and early radiation; p. 158

Claudia V. Rubinstein, Vivi Vajda

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The detailed Middle to early Late Ordovician faunal succession and δ¹³C_carbon chemistry of the Kårehamn drill core, offshore eastern Öland, Sweden: implications for stratigraphy and correlation; p. 159

Svend Stouge, Gabriella Bagnoli, Garmen Bauert, Heikki Bauert, Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen

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Late Ordovician jawed polychaete fauna from the Spiti Valley, northern India; p. 160

Petra Tonarová, Thomas J. Suttner, Michal Kubajko, Olle Hints

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Phylogeny and evolutionary modularity of a trilobite family over the Ordovician Radiation; p. 161

Ernesto E. Vargas-Parra, Melanie J. Hopkins

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Developing a phylogenetic framework for tiny Ordovician brachiopods (Atrypida: Anazyginae and Catazyginae) from the eastern United States; p. 162

Mariana Vilela-Andrade, Alycia L. Stigall

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Distribution pattern of the Ordovician black shale constrained by graptolite zonation in the western margin of the Ordos Block, North-West China; p. 163

Chuanshang Wang, Yong Hu

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Early land plant remains from the uppermost Ordovician–?lowermost Silurian Cedarberg Formation of South Africa; p. 164

Charles H. Wellman, Cameron R. Penn-Clarke, Claire Browning

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High-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Ordovician succession of the Yangtze Platform, China; p. 165

Rongchang Wu, Fangyi Gong, Mikael Calner, Jianbo Liu, Oliver Lehnert, Xiaocong Luan, Guanzhou Yan, Lixia Li, Renbin Zhan

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Oxygen isotope compositions of conodonts – analytical challenges of in situ SIMS studies; p. 166

Alicja Wudarska, Michael Wiedenbeck, Olle Hints, Peep Männik, Aivo Lepland, Michael M. Joachimski, Frédéric Couffignal, Maria Rosa Scicchitano, Franziska D. H. Wilke

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A summary of the Brazilian Paraná Basin Ordovician; p. 167

Carolina Zabini, Lívia Rodrigues, Fernando Lavié, Ana Beatriz Furtado-Carvalho, Enrique Alberto Randolfe, Juan José Rustán, Francisco Arouca, Ana Laura Silva Gomes, Rodrigo Adôrno, Matheus Denezine, Dermeval A. do Carmo, Mário L. Assine

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Ordovician geology and stratigraphy of China: A synthesis; p. 168

Yuandong Zhang, Renbin Zhan, Yongyi Zhen, Wenhui Wang, Yan Liang, Xiang Fang, Rongchang Wu, Kui Yan, Junpeng Zhang, Wenjie Li

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Reconstruction of the first consumer-driven marine ecosystem on Earth, perspectives from early Cambrian small skeletal fossils from China; p. 169

Zhifei Zhang, Yue Liang, Fan Liu, Yazhou Hu, Lars E. Holmer

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An integrative biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and sequence stratigraphic perspective of the Ordovician–Silurian boundary on Anticosti Island (Canada); p. 170

Joshua B. Zimmt, Steven M. Holland, Mariko Cappello, David S. Jones, Jisuo Jin, Jon M. Husson, Blair Schoene, Charles Mitchell, Michael Melchin, Seth Finnegan, André Desrochers

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