Exceptional appendage and soft-tissue preservation in a Middle Triassic horseshoe crab from SW China

Horseshoe crabs are classic “living fossils”, supposedly slowly evolving, conservative taxa, with a long fossil record back to the Ordovician. The evolution of their exoskeleton is well documented by fossils, but appendage and soft-tissue preservation is extremely rare. Here we analyse details of ap...

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Autores principales: Hu, Shixue, Zhang, Qiyue, Feldmann, Rodney M., Benton, Michael J., Schweitzer, Carrie E., Huang, Jinyuan, Wen, Wen, Zhou, Changyong, Xie, Tao, Lü, Tao, Hong, Shuigen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29075039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13319-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29075039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13319-x

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