{"it":{"id":"W18A01","kind":"artifact","sub":"Authenticated","name":"Meister Print (Antelope Spring shoe print)","place":"not stated","mat":"slate with two trilobites","dims":"not stated","loc":"not stated","acc":"n/a","find":"Found 1968 by William Meister, Cambrian Wheeler Formation, Antelope Springs, Utah","flag":"natural (spall)","src":[197,501],"tags":[],"sum":"In 1968 a Utah fossil hunter split slate to find a shoe-print shape with a trilobite under the heel, in rock about 500 million years old.","why":"A classic case of a real fossil and a natural rock shape being read as impossible evidence.","nfacts":1,"nsrc":2,"yt":"Compare with spall fractures.","rel":["W11A07"],"hook":"In 1968 a Utah rockhound split slate and saw a sandal print with trilobites in 500-million-year-old rock."},"S":{"197":["Wikipedia Meister Print","https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meister_Print&oldid=1339351746"],"501":["Wikipedia: Meister Print","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Print"]},"rec":{"id":"W18A01","alias":[],"ms":[{"a":"strata age","v":"500 million (Cambrian)","u":"yr","unc":"","by":"via Wikipedia","yr":"","m":"geological formation","b":"S","t":"MEASUREMENT","id":"W18M007","s":["W18S04"],"c":"Wikipedia Meister Print","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meister_Print&oldid=1339351746"}],"lab":[{"k":"Materials","v":"slate (Wheeler Formation) with two trilobite fossils","b":"S","s":["W18S04"],"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meister_Print&oldid=1339351746"}],"eng":[],"ori":[],"gaps":[{"a":"museum_accession","r":"not in staged/legacy artifact record (free sources)"}],"dat":[],"aa":[{"id":"AA261","a":"Human shoe print in Cambrian rock","who":"William Meister / Melvin Cook","main":"Natural spall formation","ms":"W18S04","st":"supported-explained","n":"","nl":"1"}],"ac":[],"me":[],"ci":[],"cq":[],"sd":[],"art":{"claimed_anomaly":"Human shoe print crushing trilobites = OOPArt","mainstream_reading":"Spalling simulacrum; lacks footprint criteria","provenance_flag":"natural (spall)","current_location":"not stated","find_circumstances":"Found 1968 by William Meister, Cambrian Wheeler Formation, Antelope Springs, Utah","claimant":"William Meister; Melvin A. Cook (1970); creationists","status":"supported-explained","dimensions":"not stated","material":"slate with two trilobites","date":"","culture":"","museum_accession":"n/a","b":"S","s":["W18S04"]},"sub":[],"src":[{"id":"W18S04","t":"Wikipedia Meister Print","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meister_Print&oldid=1339351746"},{"id":null,"t":"Wikipedia: Meister Print","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Print"},{"id":"VW18A01-3","t":"TalkOrigins Archive: The \"Meister Print\"","u":"https://talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/meister.html"}],"sum":"In 1968 William J. Meister, a rockhound hunting trilobites near Antelope Springs, Utah, broke open a slab and saw what he took for a human sandal print. The rock was the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation, over 500 million years old.\n\nThe shape was about 10 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches and appeared on both halves of the slab. It had what looked like a heel, and at least two small trilobites. Melvin Cook wrote it up in 1970, and for a while creationists cited it.\n\nGlen Kuban's review for the TalkOrigins Archive lays out the problems. The trilobites are real, but the print is a spall pattern in a concretion-like slab, like many others in the area. It was never part of a striding sequence or on an exposed surface, as real prints would be. It shows no pressure deformation. The \"heel\" is a crack that runs past the edge of the shape.\n\nMainstream rebuttals came in the 1980s (Conrad, 1981; Stokes, 1986; Strahler, 1987). Kuban says most former advocates have quietly abandoned the case.\n\nThe trilobites were real, and so was the shape. Only the story joining them was wrong. How often do our eyes create the evidence we hope for?","qs":["How often do our eyes create the evidence we hope for?","Why are footprint shapes so easy to see in rock?","What would a real footprint in that rock have needed to show?"],"gal":[{"src":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Anning_plesiosaur.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anning_plesiosaur.jpg","title":"Anning plesiosaur.jpg","lic":"Public domain","licurl":"","by":"William Buckland.","cap":"\"Plesiosaurus macrocephalus\", found by Mary Anning."}]},"img":null,"md":null,"hh":[{"v":"not stated","h":"Recorded dimensions","s":[268]}],"hs":{"268":["Wikipedia Meister Print","https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meister_Print&oldid=1339351746"]},"lh":{"s":"img/h/W18A01.webp","w":770,"h":692,"o":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Anning_plesiosaur.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"}}