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	Miocene echinoids 2 (Boccone 1674) Miocene echinoids from Sicily and Malta (after Boccone 1674, p.296, bottom)
	Paolo Boccone (1633-1704), primarily known as a botanist, also  joined artist-naturalist Agostino Scilla recording marine fossils in Sicily and Malta.   Some of these findings, such as these drawings of Miocene echinoids, including "sea urchin" fossils, were published in 1674 in a revised edition of Boccone's Recherches et observations naturelles.                                                    References: Boccone, Paolo (1671, 1674) Recherches et observations naturelles (Paris; 1671; rev.ed.Amsterdam; 1674).
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