Ancient Shoeprint That Crushed A Living Trilobite That Lived Around 300-600 Million Years Ago

A most amazing artifact was discovered in Antelope Springs, Utah by William J. Meister in June of 1968. Meister split open a two-inch-thick slab of rock with his hammer and the rock fell open "like a book." revealing a shoeprint of a human on one side with trilobites right in the print itself. This artifact is extremely significant because this is not a footprint, no, no, no, it’s a shoeprint! The other half of the rock slab in turn, showed an almost perfect mold of the print and fossils.

The shoeprint is 10 1/4 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide; the heel is indented slightly like the sole of a modern shoe and seems to have crushed a living trilobite. The Obvious problem the artifact creates is that trilobites lived between 300 and 600 million years ago yet here is evidence that a person wearing a shoe once crushed one beneath his heel. The heel of the fossil print even displays fine stitching similar to that found on a modern leather shoe. Go figure…