Exceptional soft-tissue preservation in a theropod dinosaur from Italy

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6674, 1998, Pages 383-387

  Dal Sasso, Cristiano ^a   Signore, Marco ^b,c  

^a Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; OXYGEN;

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION; THEROPOD;

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; FOSSIL; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE;

ITALY;

EID: 0032568406     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32884     Document Type: Article

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