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Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment

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A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles

image: An artistic reconstruction of the animal in its environment. view more 

Credit: Peter Nickolaus, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287936

Article Title: A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

 


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