Getting to the heart of a good fossil.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27090085.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.16207 and PMC identifier 4841764.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The discovery of perfectly preserved 113-119 million year old fossilised hearts in a Brazilian fish Rhacolepis has significant implications for palaeontology and comparative anatomy.
Medical subject headings
- Biological Evolution
- Fossils