Exceptional preservation of soft tissues in Cretaceous fishes from the Tlayúa Quarry, Central Mexico

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 682-685

  Alvarado Ortega, Jesús ^a,b   Espinosa Arrubarrena, Luis ^b   Blanco, Alberto ^c   Vega, Francisco J ^b   Benammi, Mouloud ^b   Briggs, Derek E G ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION; TAPHONOMY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

FORAMINIFERA; PISCES;

EID: 36348993060     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-059r     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. ALLISON, P.A., 1988, The role of anoxia in the decay and mineralization of proteinaceous macro-fossils: Paleobiology, v. 14, p. 139-154.
2. APPLEGATE, S.P., 1987, A preliminary study of the Tlayúa Quarry near Tepexi de Rodrfíguez, Puebla: Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología, v. 1, p. 40-50.