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Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow before being stumbled upon by a hiker in the Italian Alps. The discovery, made public Wednesday, includes well-preserved footprints of reptiles and amphibians that scientists say date back 280 million years to a geologic period known as the Permian period.
The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images. “It is the first time we have seen such an amazing variety of vertebrate footprints, invertebrate tracks, imprints of flora, and other fossils,” he said in an email. “These footprints were imprinted when the sandstones and clays were still wet,” Ronchi said.
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