Monday, February 8, 2021

020821b

 

300+ million-year-old rainprints in what was once mud on a tidal flat. Specimen collected by Prescott Atkinson. Associated rocks bear the best trace-fossil assemblage of its age in the world, discovered and preserved for posterity by the Alabama Paleontological Society.

http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/cgi-bin/scm.pl  

APS (https://www.alabamapaleosoc.org/links ) book about the site: http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/monograph/monofiles/monofiles.html -- free download

A newer book about the site: https://www.amazon.com/Footprints-Stone-Fossil-Coal-Age-Tetrapods/dp/0817358447/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=



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