Exceptional preservation of palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

Exceptional preservation of palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest occurrence of intact sterols in a Crustacean fossil preserved for ca. 380 Ma within a Devonian concretion. The exceptional prese...

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Main Authors: Melendez, Ines, Grice, Kliti, Schwark, Lorenz
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
Subjects:
palaeoclimate
biogeochemistry
sterols
geochemistry
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8544

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8544

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