Oxytropidoceras Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Stunning Discovery: World’s Longest Fossilized ‘Death Track’, Sci-News, August 30, 212 http://www.sci-news....ticle00554.html http://www.sci-news.com/images/2012/08/trackway_hi_res.jpg http://www.sci-news....image_554_2.jpg Fossil records 'crab' death march by Nick Crumpton, BBC News, September 7, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-19514333 the paper is: Lomax, D. R., and C. A. Racay, 2012, A Long Mortichnial Trackway of Mesolimulus walchi from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone near Wintershof, German. Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces. vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 175-183. http://www.tandfonli...940.2012.702704 Related articles; Schmid, D. U., R. R. Leinfelder, and G. Schweigert, 2005, Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Upper Jurassic of Southern Germany. Zitteliana. Series B, Reihe B26, pp. 31-56. http://epub.ub.uni-m...2005_b26_03.pdf Koch, R., and C. Weiss, 2005, Field Trip A: Basin- Platform Transition in Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones and Dolomites of the Northern Franconian Alb (Germany). Zitteliana. Series B, Reihe B26, pp. 57-70. http://epub.ub.uni-m...2005_b26_04.pdf Roper, M., 2005, Field Trip B: East Bavarian Plattenkalk – Different Types of Upper Kimmeridgian to Lower Tithonian Plattenkalk Deposits and Facies. Zitteliana. Series B, Reihe B26, pp. 57-70. http://epub.ub.uni-m...2005_b26_05.pdf Roper, M., 2005, Field Trip C: Lithographic Limestones and Plattenkalk Deposits of the Solnhofen and Mörnsheim Formations near Eichstätt and Solnhofen. Zitteliana. Series B, Reihe B26, pp. 71-86. http://epub.ub.uni-m...2005_b26_06.pdf Yours, Paul H. Edited September 7, 2012 by Oxytropidoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I had not heard of this fossil before, and it's been up in Thermopolis for over a decade! This is exactly the kind of fossil (in the books) that so captured my wonder as a child; they made the connection between fossils and living things. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Beat me to it! That's amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 That is very interesting. Makes the mind just spin. Thanks for sharing the info and link's. Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 (edited) Perhaps not so long tracks, but interesting also Edited September 9, 2012 by MB http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CH4ShotCaller Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Perhaps not so long tracks, but interesting also That's a nice picture and it's worth a thousand words! Thanks! Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 (edited) Live Science article HERE Enjoy. Regards, Edited September 11, 2012 by Fossildude19 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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