Animal shell from Larne Basin (IMAGE)

Trinity College Dublin

Animal shell from Larne Basin

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A core sample of ~201 million year old sediments obtained from the Carnduff-2 core, drilled in the Larne Basin (Northern Ireland), showing the shell of an animal that lived on the seabed shortly after the Triassic–Jurassic global mass extinction.

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Prof. Micha Ruhl, Trinity College Dublin

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