Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-18-127-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-18-127-2015
Research article
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17 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2015

Lichen preservation in amber: morphology, ultrastructure, chemofossils, and taphonomic alteration

C. Hartl, A. R. Schmidt, J. Heinrichs, L. J. Seyfullah, N. Schäfer, C. Gröhn, J. Rikkinen, and U. Kaasalainen

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