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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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