The 395-million-year-old tetrapod tracks are 10 million years older than the oldest known fossils of elpistostegids, lobe-finned fishes considered transitional forms between fish and tetrapods.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original 2010 Nature paper (Niedźwiedzki et al.), its accompanying Nature News & Views commentary, and independent reporting (CNN). Figures for age and 10-million-year gap are consistent across primary and secondary sources. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found--Pushes Back Evolution (seed:science_and_space)
- https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/07/tetrapods.poland.evolution.discovery/index.html (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08623 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20054388/ (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/463040a (corroboration)