Sentences with phrase «soft body preservation»
Only in this group is there an unparalleled fossil record combined with relatively frequent occurrences of soft body preservation and an exceptionally resistant extracellular sperm coat.
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«Compiling such a highly resolved food web was possible for the Messel because of the exquisite preservation of soft body parts and ecological traces in the deposit,» she says, «and because my co-author, Conrad Labandeira, is one of the world's foremost experts on fossil plant - insect interactions.»
«Preservation of soft - bodied organisms is exceptionally difficult in a modern beach setting,» says Sappenfield.
The fossils were particularly important at the time to understand Cambrian paleobiology because of their often exquisite preservation that included soft body parts.
The extensive diverse fauna generally new to science and their often exquisite soft - bodied preservation, caused Walcott him to return repeatedly to the fossil site until 1924.
While the formation is mainly known for exquisite soft - body preservation of animals of the Cambrian Explosion, it also has abundant trilobites, with well over 100 described spcies across the formation's many members.