Tetrapod Trackway Wood Print

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Valentia Island is one of Ireland's most westerly points. It lies off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry. It is linked to the mainland by a bridge at Portmagee. This photo shows a view northwards to the Dingle Peninsula.

In the front and right of the photo where the rocks are a lighter colour, those are the actual tetrapod tracks. They are difficult to photograph as access is extremely limited in order to preserve them.

In 1993 an undergraduate geology student discovered a tetrapod track on the north east of Valentia Island. The tetrapod tracks are in lay person's terms footprints of an animal believed to have been created approximately 385 million years ago. The Valentia Island trackway is of international importance as it provides some of the oldest evidence of one of the first water dwelling creatures which crawled out of the water and made the important evolutionary step toward land dwelling.

While the track way is an in internationall...

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