The following set of Megapezia footprints were found at Hardraw Scaur in 1978

Extract from a letter from the Natural History Museum, Department of Palentology, July 2002

"The slab came from the Yoredale series which are Visean, late Lower Carboniferous, in age. The slab was collected by Mr S J Maude in 1977, he donated it to the National Collection in 1978 where it is registered under BMNH R 9378.... The specimen is on display in our permanent exhibition 'From the Beginning' which outlines the evolution of life through time.

I have identified the prints as cf. Megapezia. They are similar to the ichnogenus Megapezia Matthew, 1903, from the late Tournasian of Nova Scotia. Footprints have their own separate system of scientific nomenclature since, with very few exceptions, they cannot be associated with skeletal remains. Most footprint workers suggest that Megapezia might belong to either an edopoid or ans eryopoid tmnosondyl (temnospondyls are the Palaeozoic group from which modern amphibians derive). Both these groups contain quite large, sometimes armoured amphibians superficially resembling crocodiles in appearance and habits, active semi-terrestrial carnivores, but unlike crocodiles, breeding in water with aquatic gilled larvae..."