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...
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| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/3861.pdf |