Archive for March 1st, 2015

How were fossil tracks so well preserved?

A type of vertebrate trace fossil gaining recognition in the field of paleontology is that made by various tetrapods (four-footed land-living vertebrates) as they traveled through water under buoyant or semibuoyant conditions. Called fossil “swim tracks,” they occur in high numbers in deposits from the Early Triassic, the Triassic being a geologic period (250 to […]