Thanks Gareth. Mammals are much more abundant than primates. Mammals walk on marine beaches, beach bars, and lagunas, but they don't leave fossil footprints there. Maybe you or someone else can find

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These fine grained flat-lying sediments look nothing like lagoon or beach bar sediments. Maybe you can give us a reference to a proper geological description of these or other nearby Miocene

In many types of dating you can follow the beds to adjacent places that have been dated. This is what they did, and what they mean by an adjacent basin. Of course ichnofossils including tracks are

The paleoenvironment at Trachilos is well understand. It was a lagoon beach bar, and not subaqueous when the prints were made. As I recall they were dated by forams above and below the tracks

Trachilos sediments have been dated by marine foramenifera, therefore they could not have been marine sediments. Just meaningless noise now from the stalker.

Your footprint examples are in river sediments and wind-blown sediments, not marine sediments. Mammal footprints typically occur with desiccation mudcracks and raindrop marks, and none of these can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0oa3Qiz5tw

'mammal footprints in shallow marine sedimentary rocks are otherwise unknown in paleontology...' I'm not sure that is strictly true, and I'm sure there are plenty more examples.

This dating study establishes the age of the rocks at Trachilos Beach to be Miocene. They mention that the rocks are shallow marine. They also report that there are no beach deposits at Trachilos

Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete. We present an updated time frame for the 30-m thick late-Miocene sedimentary Trachilos section from Crete, that contains the potentially

Thanks, DD, I knew sea-otters dive with a stone in the axilla, but I didn't know this seems to be a real pocket.

Early line and hook fishing at the Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat (Northern Israel) Antonella Pedergnana cs 2021 PLoS doi org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257710 19 broken & complete bone

Humans incisors have multiple functions. Two of which are grasping and scraping. Before we ate meat our incisors still scraped such as removing plant material from harder cores or surfaces, and

In the Western USA deserts ground sloths often held a desert (xeric) niche eating Joshua trees when other forage was not abundant. Joshua trees are very slow growing. The niche is not filled with the

from 4.45 minutes in... 8 Ma, late Miocene, Peruvian coasts Hot dry desert and coasts Thalassocnus got denser bones increased size They can see it in other

Why do sheepshead fish have humanlike incisors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt9tBtQoAHo

Thanks Gareth, This is a useful page for children and adults. The Figure 1 (Evolutionary scheme) does not agree with the sentence: Ten to twelve million years ago, primates divided into two branches,

Maybe you should start with this one for primary school children. https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00022 A Brief Account of Human Evolution for Young Minds · Frontiers for