New Discovery - Fossilised Giant Zebra Tracks Found in South Africa TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
To complete the process, please follow the instructions in the email we just sent you.One of the Giant Cape Zebra sites comprises a single trackway containing 12 tracks. Another contains two probable quagga trackways that intersect at right angles, respectively containing ten and six tracks. We informally dubbed this the"zebra crossing". Such long fossil equid trackways are especially rare, as equids are often gregarious and isolated trackways are unusual.
Sadly, the finest such site was in Nevada in the US, where a 50,000 year-old equid trackway contained 28 tracks - but it was covered in the 1930s during prison construction and isThrough our Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating program, we have established an age range for the equid tracksites from about 161,000 years to about 43,000 years.
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