Tag: trace fossils

Ephemeral ladybug trace fossil

I just came across this image of a ladybug making tracks in condensation on a window. As far as I can tell, this is an original photo by user 77dlsd at reddit. Fascinating! This might be a decent way of capturing different kinds of arthropod trackways, although you may have to be something of a Snowflake Bentley to frost a glass plate, drop a critter, catch a critter, and photograph the plate without losing anything.

[publication] A new occurrence of /Protichnites/ Owen, 1852, in the Late Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone of the St. Lawrence Lowlands

BURTON-KELLY, M.E. and J.M. ERICKSON. 2010. A new occurrence of Protichnites Owen, 1852, in the Late Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone of the St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Open Paleontology Journal 3:1-13.

You can download a PDF from here 1MB. You can follow this publication on Academia.edu or ResearchGate.

Ichnowiki: Anomoepus

[EDIT: Ichnowiki is no more. 2014-02-07]

This weekend I’m getting back to working on Ichnowiki. The first article I found on my desktop was Milner et al. (2009) from PLoS ONE, so I started off with Anomoepus. If anyone else is interested in tracking down references and describing this taxon, by all means jump in!

References:
Milner, Andrew R. C., Harris, Jerald D., Lockley, Martin J., Kirkland, James I. and Matthews, Neffra A. 2009. Bird-like anatomy, posture, and behavior revealed by an early Jurassic theropod dinosaur resting trace. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004591.