Soft tissue preservation in terrestrial mesozoic vertebrates

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 187-216

  Schweitzer, Mary Higby ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

dinosaur; exceptional preservation; molecular preservation; soft tissue fossils

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; ENDOGENEITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOZOIC; MOLECULAR PRESERVATION; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE FOSSILS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IODINE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TISSUE;

ANIMALS;

BIODEGRADATION; DINOSAUR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOSSIL RECORD; MESOZOIC; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PRESERVATION; RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79954426196     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133502     Document Type: Article

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