Twice, Salty Water Flooded the Ancient Amazon (10 of 17) (IMAGE)

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Twice, Salty Water Flooded the Ancient Amazon (10 of 17)

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A species of mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda: Squillidae), which still exists today, from the Pacific of Panama in side view (A) and details of the raptorial claw (B). Fossil of a Miocene 'spearer' squillid mantis shrimp from Colombia, showing the raptorial claw preserved in a core (C), and scanning electron microscope images showing details of the claw and spines (D). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 03 May 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Jaramillo at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Ancon, Panama, and colleagues was titled, "Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia."

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