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My son found these tracks amid marine fossils in an inland sea. They are very small, round and in long trails. Thank you

Found this rock on Lake Michigan along the Frankfort shoreline. I thought it would be fun to experiment with some acid, so I put it in 10% or so bath for a day. I washed it off this morning and viola... little bird feet! Or, foot prints. Or maybe not. This area was a tropical, shallow sea for a long time, so maybe bird prints don't make sense. Also, other than the ID of this... I wonder how common this is? Any help would be appreciated.

This was found in south Tarrant County, (Fort Worth) TX, 6 to 8 feet deep, from oil and gas pipeline dig, so I don't know the formation. Need help identifying if this is a track. As always, thanks in advance for your help.

I live in Slovenia. I've been visiting this forum from time to time. Finally, I've decided to join and share my experience and thoughts. My main interest are the Mesozoic tetrapods. Above all: the dinosaurs. I am a paleo illustrator and a dinosaur ichnologist. You can learn more about me here: Mesozoic Mosaic Beri's dinosaur World (BDW)

I have been searching for a small affordable slab with trilobite tracks to demonstrate trace fossils to the scouts. I found a slab that is the right size, but wonder about its authenticity.

Navajo Nation To Preserve Dinosaur Tracks by Laurel Morales, KPBS News, October, 23, 2012 http://www.kpbs.org/...inosaur-tracks/ These tracks are located miles west of Tuba City, Arizona, on U.S. Highway 160, Other web pages: Stepping Into Dinosaur Tracks in Tuba City, Arizona http://openplac.es/t...in-tuba-city-az File:Tuba City Dinosaur Track.jpg http://en.wikipedia....osaur_Track.jpg Tuba City Dinosaur Tracks, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYR3gdOuuQ Moenkopi Dinosaur Tracks - review http://www.yelp.com/biz/moenkopi-dinosaur-tracks-tuba-city Best wishes, Paul H.

I came across this today, not a bad way to start the morning! Predominantly camel, but there was also proboscidean bison, horse, and small artiodactyl tracks that were either deer or reindeer!

Her is a news story that I stumbled across http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fossilised-tracks-in-uruguay-from-oldest-slug-ever-known-20120630-219b9.html

New dinosaur fossil discoveries in Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, Alaska by Ned Rozell, Dispatch, June 24, 2012 http://www.alaskadis...ngell-mountains Dinosaur hunter finds fossils in Wrangell Mountains‎ Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Ned Rozell, June 24, 2012 http://newsminer.com...ngell-Mountains Scientist finds dinosaur tracks in Wrangell Mountains by Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, June 24, 2012 http://www.adn.com/2...aur-tracks.html The paper is: Fiorillo, A. R., T. L. Adams, and Y. Kobayashi, 2012, New sedimentological, palaeobotanical, and dinosaur ichnological data on the palaeoecology of an unnamed Late Cretaceous rock unit in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA, Cretaceous Research. vol. 37, pp. 291-299. http://www.sciencedi...195667112000869 A related paper is: Fiorillo, A. R., S. T. Hasiotis, Y. Kobayashi, B. H. Breithaupt, and P. J. McCarthy, 2011, Bird tracks for the Upper Cretaceous Cantwell Formation of Denali National Park, Alaska, USA: a new perspective on ancient polar vertebrate biodiversity. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. vol. 9. no.1, pp. 33-49. http://www.tandfonli....509356#preview Best wishes, Paul H.

Discovery of fossilized dinosaur footprints gets int’l recognition Korea Herald, June 13, 2012, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2012/06/113_112869.html http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120613000722&cpv=0 http://french.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2012/06/12/0200000000AFR20120612003300884.HTML The paper is in "Tracking on the Korean Cretaceous Dinosaur Coast: 40 years of Vertebrate Ichnology in Korea" Ichnos An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces, vol. 19, no. 1-2. Yours, Paul H.

So, I was going to open this topic called “Show me your Ichnofossils (aka Trace fossils) and we’d all get to see all kinds of feeding traces, tracks, footprints, burrows and other items, then this afternoon my 90lb dog left me a large gift on the carpet so I’m amending the request and excluding Coprolites from you all, which are ok, but I don’t want to really see them now—OK??!! LOL How about we call this Ichnofossils (part 1---Tracks/trackways/burrows/other traces only) for now!! Some other brave member or moderator can initiate Ichno part 2---Coprolites!) Here are 2 for starters--I'm sure you all have some better ones of these and lots more variety out there--let's seem them! Regards, Chris A trilobite trackway Arkansas A mammal like reptile? Cheilichnus trackway, Arizona