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A newly described fireworm species, Rollinschaeta myoplena, from the Late Cretaceous period, was preserved as mainly fossilized muscle tissue.

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Nov 20, 2015 | 1 min read

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, LUKE PARRY(See “A new fireworm (Amphinomidae) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon identified from three-dimensionally preserved myoanatomy,” BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015.)

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