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MONTANAN.UMT.EDU MONTANAN WINTER 2016 // 3 CorrespondenceJH_ec.indd 3 1/18/16 5:37 PM OvalJH_ec.indd 4 1/18/16 5:39 PM NOTABLES // PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE // THE BOTTOM LINE // FACETIME AROUND THE OVAL AN INCREDIBLE FIND UM doctoral student, professor discover earliest Jurassic corals ive times in Earth’s history, mass extinction events have wiped out up to F90 percent of global life. University of Montana doctoral student Montana Hodges and geosciences Professor George Stanley recently found the fossil record of the earliest North American coral species that reappeared after the Triassic- Jurassic mass extinction event, which happened more than 200 million years ago. Their findings were published in the October issue of GSA Today: A Publication of the Geological Society of America. The article, “North American coral recovery after the end-Triassic mass extinction, New York Canyon, Nevada,” is featured on the journal’s cover. Above: A University of Hodges and Stanley research the collapse Montana field team and recovery of coral reefs. Corals are measures rocks at particularly hard-hit by subtle changes in New York Canyon, ocean temperature and acidity. About 200 Nevada. million years ago, corals and reefs completely Right: The earliest collapsed. For this particular extinction event, Jurassic solitary corals researchers have found no evidence of asteroid discovered by UM impact or other catastrophic events. Instead, researchers in New York Canyon. the geologic and paleontological records point to massive global climate change. PHOTOS COURTESY OF MONTANA HODGES MONTANA OF COURTESY PHOTOS “We believe the warming climate was due to a combination effect from supercontinent Pangaea breaking apart, changes in sea level, of North America. Geologists have flocked survival during such a tumultuous time. Or and massive amounts of gas spewing into the to this site for almost 100 years to study the they may have migrated from the distant side atmosphere from cracks in the Earth’s crust,” unique and continuous deposition of rocks of Pangaea.” Hodges says. that span the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. The Regardless, they are the earliest After that mass extinction event, it took fossils left in the rocks offer a fairly complete representatives of the coral that would slowly coral reefs more than 20 million years to snapshot of the mass extinction, yet the rebuild and diversify over millions of years.