Are 'exceptionally' preserved skeletal fossils necessarily exceptional chemically and cytologically?
At the macroscopic scale, vertebrate fossils are considered exceptional when non-biomineralized (soft) tissues are preserved. Histologically, high quality is defined by trueness to original shape of a bone, preservation of fine details (e.g. canaliculi), and presence or absence of matrix material in...
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Virginia Tech
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93932 |