Michael Buchwitz of the Magdeburg Museum of Natural History presented fossil tracks and scratch marks found in the Steinbruch Mammendorf quarry near Eichenbarleben in 2016, put on public display for the first time in the foyer of the Museum of Cultural History in Magdeburg. The exhibit coincides with the 45th conference of the German-speaking Vertebrate Paleontology Working Group of the Paleontological Society, held in Magdeburg (March 16-18).
Most of the tracks and marks are thought to have been made by early cynodont synapsids (some larger tracks could be from pareiasaurs). The trace fossils date from around 260 million years ago during the Permian. The basal cynodont Procynosuchus (or a similar animal) may have been one of the track-makers. A model of Procynosuchus is displayed with some of the tracks. The tracks will be part of a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, planned for 2020. (in German)