trilobite is a marine arthropod, found in fossil form in the rock systems of the Paleozoic era.This dates the fossil at 300 to 600 million years old.This would either challenge all conventional ideas of human and geological evolution, or lend credence to the theroy that a bipeddle shoe wearing creature visited earth hundreds of millions of years ago.
Meister made his mind boggling discovery in Antelope Spring, 43 miles west of Delta, Utah.
He was accompanied on this expedition by his wife and two daughters, and by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shape and their two daughters. Thay had found several fossils of trilobites when Meister split open a small rock and made his disturbing discovery. Meister described the print like this:
on one side the footprint of a human with trilobites right in the footprint itself. The other half of the rock slab showed an almost perfect mold of the footprint and fossils. Amazingly the human was wearing a sandel.
Trilobites lived for aproximately 320 million years before dieing out 280 million years ago. The dawn of mankind began between one and two million years ago and the invention of practical footwear happened only a few thousand years ago.
Meister took the fossil of the 10 1/4 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide sandel to Melvin Cook, professor of metallurgy at the University of Utah. Cook advised him to show the fossil to the geologist at the university. Meister was unable to find a cooperative geologist so he went to a local newspaper, The Desert News. Soon after the specimen evoked national publicity.
In a news conference the curator of the Museum of Earth Science at the University of Utah, James Madsen asked this question:
Madsen asserted that the fossil must have been formed by a natural process and not man made. He was unable to explain how. Dr. Jesse Jennings theorized that the print might have been made by a group of trilobites resting on one another. There is no evidence to this assumption.
July 20,1968 Dr. Clifford Burdick, consulting geologist from Tuscon, Arizona, examined the site. He found an impression of a childs foot in the shale. Dr. Burdick said this about the print," the impression was about six inches in length with the toes spreading, as if the child had never yet worn shoes, which compress the toes. There does not appear to be much of an arch, and the big toe is not prominent." The print was shown to two geologists and a paleontologist. One of the geologists agreed that the footprint appeared to be human. The paleontologist strongly disagreed and felt that no biological agent was involved. Dr. Burdick illustrated that a weight had indeed been pressed into the mud. He never waivered from his position that the print was indeed made by a child.
August 1968, Mr. Dean Bitter, educator in the Salt Lake City public schools systems, alleged he found two more prints of sandels in the same area. Professor Cook stated that no trilobites were crushed in the prints, but a trilobite was found in the same rock near the prints. This means the trilobite and the sandeled bipeddle co-existed.
Could this be proof that sandels are indeed the most comfortable form of footwear?
