Fossils Show Unexpected Diversity of Marine Organisms Following the 'Great Dying' (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Fossils Show Unexpected Diversity of Marine Organisms Following the 'Great Dying' (3 of 5)

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Remarkable group of sponge fossils from the Paris Biota under UV light. Scale bar lenght: 5 mm. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 15 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Brayard at Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Dijon, France, and colleagues was titled, "Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna."

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[Credit: Arnaud Brayard]

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