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Getting to the heart of a good fossil

The discovery of perfectly preserved 113-119 million year old fossilised hearts in a Brazilian fish Rhacolepis has significant implications for palaeontology and comparative anatomy.

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Autor principal: Long, John A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27090085
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16207
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spelling pubmed-48417642016-04-25 Getting to the heart of a good fossil Long, John A eLife Ecology The discovery of perfectly preserved 113-119 million year old fossilised hearts in a Brazilian fish Rhacolepis has significant implications for palaeontology and comparative anatomy. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4841764/ /pubmed/27090085 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16207 Text en © 2016, Long http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27090085
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