Discovery of chemosynthesis-based association on the Cretaceous basal leatherback sea turtle from Japan
We report a Late Cretaceous chemosynthetic community fueled by decomposing basal leatherback sea turtle on the ocean floor in the western Pacific. The fossil association representing this community has been recovered from the matrix of a concretion containing a single carapace of Mesodermochelys sp....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Paleobiology PAS
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |
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