"78-million-year-old sea fossil puts Malatya under water
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Two academics have found a 78-million-year-old fossil in the southeastern province of Malatya.
Mehmet Önal and Hasan Kavruk, both from Malatya's İnönü University, told the Anatolia news agency that they have found a rudist fossil, termed an �index fossil� because the type of organism it preserves became extinct at a reasonably well-defined date; thus the absence or presence of the fossil can be used to help date marine sedimentary rocks."
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