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50-million year-old nummulite exhibited in Turkey's Diyarbakır

A recently discovered 50-million-year-old nummulite, a large lens-shaped single-celled marine organism (foraminifera), was put on display at a museum in Turkey's southeastern province.

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The nummulite was found by Büşra Bektaş, a molecular biology student at Dicle University in Diyarbakır, during a family picnic in southeastern Siirt province.