Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania (original) (raw)

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Recent excavation of the tuffs of the Laetolil Beds in Tanzania has revealed the presence of a large variety of footprints from the Pliocene. Many of these prints can be correlated with fossilised remains of Pliocene animals found in the same area.

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  1. R. L. Hay
    Present address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720

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Leakey, M., Hay, R. Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania.Nature 278, 317–323 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/278317a0

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