The present contribution documents the occurrence of Triebelina indopacifica van den Bold around Moorea and Tahiti, Windward Islands, French Polynesia and describes the new species Triebelina porinetia sp. nov..
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe biology of extinct animals is usually reconstructed from external morphological characters and comparison with present-day analogues. Internal soft organs are very rarely preserved in fossils and require high-tech approaches for visualization. Here, we report the internal anatomy of a female and male of the ~ 162 Myr-old lobster Eryma ventrosum from the Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Konservat-Lagerstätte in France using X-ray synchrotron tomography.
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