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Over the last eight years, L.J. Krumenacker, ISU Geosciences adjunct professor and affiliate curator at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, and his co-authors studied 250 million-year-old fossils found in Caribou and Bear Lake Counties in Southeast Idaho as well as specimens from northeastern Nevada. What they discovered shows how fast - geologically speaking - life recovered after the Permian mass extinction. During the Permian mass extinction, more than 90 percent of species were lost.

 

鈥淚t took about 1.5 to 2 million years for this ecosystem to get going after the massive Permian/Triassic extinction,鈥� said Krumenacker. 鈥淭he fossils show how complex marine ecosystems established themselves soon after the extinction.鈥�

 

色花堂appers found simple organisms like algae and shellfish, crustaceans, squid-like animals called cephalopods, and top-tier predators like fish and marine reptiles at the dig sites.

 

鈥淭he ecosystem resembles what we see in today鈥檚 oceans,鈥� Krumenacker said. 鈥淭here are all the levels of a complicated food chain, and this ecosystem shows abundant life.鈥�

 

Now, the fossils will be housed and featured in the 鈥淭his is Idaho鈥� exhibit at the Idaho Museum of Natural History in Pocatello.

 

鈥淭he wilderness of Idaho records an abundance of world history that we are only now beginning to realize,鈥� said Leif Tapanila, Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to curate these new fossils so that future generations of Idahoans can make a personal connection with our shared history.鈥�

 

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