Progress Notes
Rainbow Basin Camel Tracks 2
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, 03-16-2012 at 04:21 PM (14360 Views)
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The hardened and uplifted layer of ash is at the lower right. Camel footprints are underneath the ash layer.
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A clear camel track is at the upper right. The gouged out areas in the middle and lower left are where someone removed tracks illegally. This is why archeologists, paleontologists and anthropologists don't give out exact locations for publication outside professional journals.
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Aepycamelus was a small camelid that lived in savannah or prairie environments in the Miocene. It looked something like a giraffe and had the same elongated neck bones. It stood about nine feet tall at the top of its head. When I was a student I helped remove a hip bone and socket with part of the pelvis of a camel from the hardened lake mud. Miss August dug up the lower jaw of an early horse (Merychippus) just like on National Geographic with the dental picks and the brushes. She usually got to do the fancy stuff like that.
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