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What made these tracks?

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  • 06-05-2014 10:18am
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    shedweller
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    My dad was doing some excavation work on the farm and found this little beauty. It's on a type of slate and he calls it green stone. It does strike me as something akin to shale and the piece pictured here is about 5mm thick.
    The scale in the picture is in cm.

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    Rubecula
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    I would guess a trilobite or similar


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    shedweller
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    I would guess a trilobite or similar
    I was kind of thinking that but i googled that and they all look different to this. Theres probably a few varieties though so i may search a bit more.


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    Adam Khor
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    I googled eurypterid tracks and those of similar creatures but none seem to match D: Very interesting


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    bogwalrus
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    Is it not just one fossil of a sort of ancient caterpillar?


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    shedweller
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    bogwalrus wrote: »
    Is it not just one fossil of a sort of ancient caterpillar?
    I wondered that too but it just starts and ends with those three steps. It could of course be a caterpillar that floated down and took a step with three of its "modules" and the rest of its prints are elsewhere. Hmm...


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    bogwalrus
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    shedweller wrote: »
    I wondered that too but it just starts and ends with those three steps. It could of course be a caterpillar that floated down and took a step with three of its "modules" and the rest of its prints are elsewhere. Hmm...

    It's just they look very like legs when you view from the side and similar enough to other insect fossils on the net. Maybe.


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