Some Obscurish facts
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What may well be the oldest fossil footprint ever discovered was found in 1968 by William J. Meister, an amateur fossil collector. If the print is what it appears to be, the impression of a sandaled shoe crushing a trilobite, it would have had to have been made 300 - 600 million years ago and would be sufficient to either overturn all conventionally accepted ideas of human and geological evolution or to prove that a shoe wearing biped from another world had once visited this planet. Meister made his potentially disturbing find during rock and fossil hunting trip to Antelope Spring, 43 miles west of Delta, Utah. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shape and their two daughters. The party had already discovered several fossil trilobites when Meister split open a rock with his hammer and made the outrageous find. The rock fell open 'like a book' revealing 'on one side the footprint of a human with trilobites right in the footprint itself. The other half of the slab of rock showed an almost perfect mold of the footprint and fossils. Amazingly, the human was wearing a sandal.' Trilobites were small marine invertebrates, the relatives of todays shrimp and crabs that flourished for over 320 million years before becoming extinct 280 million years ago.
What may well be the oldest fossil footprint ever discovered was found in 1968 by William J. Meister, an amateur fossil collector. If the print is what it appears to be, the impression of a sandaled shoe crushing a trilobite, it would have had to have been made 300 - 600 million years ago and would be sufficient to either overturn all conventionally accepted ideas of human and geological evolution or to prove that a shoe wearing biped from another world had once visited this planet. Meister made his potentially disturbing find during rock and fossil hunting trip to Antelope Spring, 43 miles west of Delta, Utah. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shape and their two daughters. The party had already discovered several fossil trilobites when Meister split open a rock with his hammer and made the outrageous find. The rock fell open 'like a book' revealing 'on one side the footprint of a human with trilobites right in the footprint itself. The other half of the slab of rock showed an almost perfect mold of the footprint and fossils. Amazingly, the human was wearing a sandal.' Trilobites were small marine invertebrates, the relatives of todays shrimp and crabs that flourished for over 320 million years before becoming extinct 280 million years ago.