Noah's Raven

"And he sent forth a Raven, and it went forth and to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth"

 

Slab of sandstone, 2° 9' X 1° 7', showing a row of Anomeopus minor, and another of Ancyropus heteroclitus(?). From South Hadley, near Moody Corner. This specimen was ploughed up by Pliny Moody, in 1800. It was subsequently used for a doorstep, then obtained by Dr. Dwight, of South Hadley, and finally bought by E.H., of his heirs. This is the earliest specimen of fossil footmarks anywhere preserved. The tracks were called by Moody, those of Noah's Raven.

 

From Supplement to the Ichnology of New England by Edward Hitchcock, Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1865

 

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