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earliest life onshore! were riding fatbikes

Miller Museum of Geology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

 

pseudopod-in-pseudopod, two-of-a-kind were trundling along together more than half a billion years ago collected from a small quarry north of Kingston Ontario.

 

trace fossil track display of soft body, sluglike critters called Climatichnites hailing from ~515 million years ago in the Cambrian; they were among the first known animals to come ashore on a global scale

 

big animals, too! my spread hand would fit in each trackway with room to spare; fossils of the actual creatures have yet to be found

 

doubling down with more onshore from the same era_

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link to a larger trackway at McGill University's Redpath Museum in Montréal, with _two_ kinds of critters from this slice of deep time from another quarry in the same locale.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on December 16, 2016
Taken in October 2016