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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...
Autores principales: | Tissier, Jérémy, Rage, Jean-Claude, Laurin, Michel |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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