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Exceptional soft tissues preservation in a mummified frog-eating Eocene salamander

Fossils are almost always represented by hard tissues but we present here the exceptional case of a three-dimensionally preserved specimen that was ‘mummified’ (likely between 40 and 34 million years ago) in a terrestrial karstic environment. This fossil is the incomplete body of a salamander, Phosp...

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Autores principales: Tissier, Jérémy, Rage, Jean-Claude, Laurin, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018606
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3861