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Highway
of Life
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Trace
Maker
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Amphibian |
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Trace
Name
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Hylopus
hardingi |
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Trace
Maker
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Reptile |
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Trace
Name
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Pseudobradypus
sp. |
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Trace
Maker
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Amphibian |
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Trace
Name
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Dromillopus
quadrifidus |
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Trace
Maker
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Amphibian |
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Trace
Name
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Cursipes
dawsoni |
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Age
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Carboniferous
Period (Approximately 315 million years old) |
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Where
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Diligent
River, Nova Scotia |
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Cast
or Mold
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Cast |
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Collector
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Staff
of the Fundy Geological Museum and the Nova Scotia Museum
of Natural History |
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This
layer of rock provides us with a glimpse of life during one
day on a well-vegetated flood plain about 315 million years
ago. There are trackways of three different amphibians and one
reptile. The trackways seem to cross one another. We can tell
that one reptile was actually turning as it walked - can you
see the body drag? We know that the trackways were made on a
vegetated flood plain because there are plant fossils of ferns
(Alethopteris) and trees (Calamites) preserved. |
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