A Lost World

The panel's lost world has no animals in it, and these rocks may hold a tenant after all. The geologist Robert Horodyski found strings of tiny beads on bedding planes of the Appekunny Formation, a Belt unit in Glacier National Park roughly 1.48 billion years old. In 2000 Ellis Yochelson and Mikhail Fedonkin named them Horodyskia moniliformis and argued they were a multicellular organism. Others have read them as clumps of clay or a lichen-like partnership. Similar strings have since turned up in Australia, India and China, and nobody yet agrees what they were.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 15 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 21 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.

More markers nearby

• A Wonderful Piece of Engineering: The Mullan Road — steps away
• Schitsu'umsh — 4.8 mi
• Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw) — 4.9 mi
• Willow Creek Slide — 5.8 mi