Exceptional appendage and soft-tissue preservation in a Middle Triassic horseshoe crab from SW China
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2017 at "Scientific Reports"
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13319-x
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: horseshoe; soft tissue; appendage soft; tissue preservation ... See more keywords
Three‐dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin of a non‐avian dinosaur
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2020 at "Palaeontology"
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12470
Abstract: The most commonly preserved soft tissues associated with ornithischian dinosaurs are skin remains. The apparent resistance of hadrosaur skin to decay, and its abundance in the fossil record relative to that of other tetrapods, has… read more here.
Keywords: three dimensional; preservation; hadrosaur skin; dimensional soft ... See more keywords