Study Slab (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Study Slab

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A slab of rock from a study site in Nevada harbors many specimens of colonies of Metabolograptus extraordinarius, a shallow-water graptolite species, which together with some close relatives, replaced all the formerly dominant species following the end-Ordovician mass extinction

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Credit: Charles E. Mitchell

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