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Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest occurrence of intact sterols in a Crustacean fossil preserved for ca. 380 Ma within a Devonian concretion. The exceptional prese...

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Autores principales: Melendez, Ines, Grice, Kliti, Schwark, Lorenz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24067597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02768