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Fosillised Footprints, Pontdrift, Soutpansberg District These fossilised reptile footprints occur in sandstone where there was a dune in earlier times which was later covered by basalt flows. The animals of tile vicinity presumably fled to the dune where a large number of fossilised prints of various animals a Type of site: Trace fossils.
Makapan Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site Location Limpopo, South Africa Part of Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa Criteria Cultural: (iii)(vi) Reference 915bis-002 Inscription 1999 (23rd Session) Extensions 2005 Area 2,220 ha (5,500 acres) Buffer zone 55,000 ha (140,000 acres) Coordinates 24°9′31″S 29°10′37″E / 24.15861°S 29.17694°E / -24.15861; 29.17694 Location of ...
During the Late Miocene, the northeastern margin of the Caribbean Plate began to collide with the Bahamas Platform.This caused the formation of a two new strike-slip fault zones between the island of Hispaniola and the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center west of Jamaica, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone and the Walton fault zone. [2]
Eve's footprint is the popular name for a set of fossilised footprints discovered on the shore of Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa in 1995. They are thought to be those of a female human and have been dated to approximately 117,000 years ago. This makes them the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human.
The Happisburgh footprints were a set of fossilized hominid footprints that date to the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 950–850,000 years ago. They were discovered in May 2013 in a newly uncovered sediment layer of the Cromer Forest Bed on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk , England, and carefully photographed in 3D before being ...
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The Meister Print (also known as the Meister Footprint) refers to two trilobites in slate that appeared to be crushed in a human shoe print. The print was cited by creationists and other pseudoscience advocates as an out-of-place artifact, but was debunked by palaeontologists as the result of a natural geologic process known as spall formation.
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