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A newly described fireworm species, Rollinschaeta myoplena, from the Late Cretaceous period, was preserved as mainly fossilized muscle tissue.
Nov 20, 2015
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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