“Fossils preserve the record of life on Earth and are exceedingly rare,” park officials said.
The “trace” fossils from the early Triassic period were taken from the park sometime between August 2017 and August 2018, according to a TuesdayThe agency posted a photo of where the reptile track fossils were seemingly sliced away from a chunk of red rock in the park.
Over millions of years, the softer rock on the underside eroded away, leaving casts of the original swim traces behind as fossils.
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