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Valentia Island
island in Ireland
Riversleigh
fossil site in Australia
Laetoli
thumb|Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, [[Tokyo, Japan]] thumb|Laetoli footprints Laetoli is a pre-historic site located in Enduleni ward of Ngorongoro District in Arusha Region, Tanzania. The site is dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its Hominina footprints, preserved in volcanic ash. The site of the Laetoli footprints (Site G) is located 45 km south of Olduvai Gorge. The location and tracks were discovered by archaeologist Mary Leakey and her team in 1976, and were excavated by 1978. Based on analysis of the footfall impressi
Dromornithidae
Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs (after Tjapwuring Mihirung paringmal, "giant bird") and informally as thunder birds or demon ducks, is an extinct family of large, flightless birds native to Australia from at least the late Oligocene (and perhaps as early as the early Eocene) to the Late Pleistocene. They were long classified in Struthioniformes (the ratites), but are now usually classified as a type of gigantic fowl (Galloanserae). Dromornithids were part of the Australian megafauna. One species, Dromornis stirtoni, was tall, making them among the largest birds ever. Only a single species,
Joggins
Joggins is a rural community located in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. On July 7, 2008, a 15-km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Ipolytarnóc
Ipolytarnóc () is a village in Hungary, Nógrád county. There is a fossil site close to it, the Ipolytarnoc Fossils Nature Conservation Area.
Cabo Espichel
protected area in Portugal
Happisburgh footprints
set of fossilized hominid footprints in Norfolk, England
Hibbertopterus
Hibbertopterus is a genus of eurypterid, a group of extinct marine arthropods. Fossils of Hibbertopterus have been discovered in deposits ranging from the Devonian period in Belgium, Scotland and the United States to the Carboniferous period in Scotland, Ireland, the Czech Republic and South Africa. The type species, H. scouleri, was first named as a species of the significantly different Eurypterus by Samuel Hibbert in 1836. The generic name Hibbertopterus, coined more than a century later, combines his name and the Greek word πτερόν (pteron) meaning "wing".
Cal Orck'o
fossil bed in Bolivia
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
site
ichnite
fossilised footprint
Walchia
Walchia is a primitive fossil conifer found in upper Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) and lower Permian (about 310-290 Mya) rocks of Europe and North America. A forest of in-situ Walchia tree-stumps is located on the Northumberland Strait coast at Brule, Nova Scotia.
Minas Basin
Inlet of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia
Ancient footprints of Acahualinca
hominid fossils in Nicaragua
Cruziana
thumb|270px|right|Cruziana from the Devonian [[Brallier Formation or Harrell Formation.]]
Trachilos footprints
tetrapod footprints which show hominin-like characteristics from the late Miocene on the western Crete, close to the village of Trachilos, west of Kissamos, in the Chania Prefecture
Dinosaur Valley Natural Monument
area in Brazil
Chirotherium
Chirotherium, also known as Cheirotherium (‘hand-beast’), is a Triassic trace fossil consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyle) footprints and whole tracks. These look, by coincidence, remarkably like the hands of apes and bears, with the outermost toe having evolved to extend out to the side like a thumb, although probably only functioning to provide a firmer grip in mud. Chirotherium tracks were first found in 1834 in Lower Triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein) in Thuringia, Germany, dating from about 243 million years ago (mya).
Beacon Supergroup
stratigraphic layer in Antarctica
Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park
Dinosaur and Fossil Park in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Ciampate del Diavolo
locality near the extinct Roccamonfina volcano in northern Campania, Italy