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Experimental subaqueous burial of a bird carcass and compaction of plumage

‘Exceptional fossils’ of dinosaurs preserving feathers have radically changed the way we view their paleobiology and the evolution of birds. Understanding how such soft tissues preserve is imperative to accurately interpreting the morphology of fossil feathers. Experimental taphonomy has been integr...

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Autores principales: Saitta, Evan T., Clapham, Charles, Vinther, Jakob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0411-y