Archive for September 12th, 2012

World’s Smallest Fossil Footprints: Small Amphibian Roamed Earth 315 Million Years Ago

A new set of fossil footprints discovered in Joggins, Nova Scotia, near Amherst, have been identified as the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints.  The footprints were found at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. A fossil specimen of the ichnogenusBatrachichnus salamandroides was collected by local amateur paleontologist Gloria Melanson, daughter of Don […]