Polished Fossil (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Polished Fossil

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This polished fossil slab used in the study dates to more than 210 million years ago and contains well-preserved symbiotic corals. The fossils were collected in a mountainous region in Antalya, Turkey, and originated in the Tethys Sea, a shallow sunlit body of water that existed when the Earth's continents were one solid land mass called Pangea.

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Photo courtesy of Jaroslaw Stolarski, Polish Academy of Sciences

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Photo courtesy of Jaroslaw Stolarski, Polish Academy of Sciences

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