This is a cue sheet for the Ancestor's Trail Hike Running / Walking Route. You can print it out for later use.
| Cumulative | Distance | Where | Notes | Direction | Elevation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0km | 0km | Erindale Park @ 8:00am | Dawn of multicellular animal life approximately one billion years ago. | NNE | 16° | 0m |
| 0.8km | 0.8km | Choanoflagellates - 8:30am | The choanoflagellates are a group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals. As the name suggests, choanoflagellates (collared flagellates) have a distinctive cell morphology characterized by an ovoid or spherical cell body 3–10 µm in diameter with a single apical flagellum surrounded by a collar of 30–40 microvilli. | NNW | 322° | 0m |
| 1.2km | 0.4km | 900mya | NW | 309° | 0m | |
| 1.8km | 0.6km | Sponges - 8:45am | 800 mya we had a common ancestor with sponges and other members of the phylum Porifera | NNW | 339° | 0m |
| 2.3km | 0.5km | Placozoans join 780mya @ 9:00am - Burhamthorpe Rd | Trichoplax adhaerens is a tiny seawater organism that lacks any organs and has only five types of cells, giving it the appearance of an amoeba. | NW | 306° | 0m |
| 2.5km | 0.2km | 800mya | Sponges (Porifera) | WNW | 274° | 0m |
| 2.5km | 0.1km | 800MYA | WNW | 275° | 0m | |
| 2.8km | 0.3km | 780mya | Placozoans | WNW | 292° | 0m |
| 4.1km | 1.3km | Acoelomorphs join @ 9:30am - Wellesborough Place | Flatworms join 630mya | NNW | 332° | 0m |
| 4.5km | 0.3km | Creditpointe Dr. Proto/Deuterostomes @ 9:45am | Protosomes & Deuterosomes diverge 590mya | S | 172° | 0m |
| 4.6km | 0.1km | 630mya | SW | 221° | 0m | |
| 5km | 0.4km | 600MYA | WNW | 289° | 0m | |
| 5.1km | 0km | 590mya | NW | 310° | 0m | |
| 5.5km | 0.5km | Jawless fish join @ 10:00am - Eglinton Road | Concestor of Lamprey and Hagfish exist around 530mya | NW | 314° | 0m |
| 5.8km | 0.3km | 530mya | NNW | 351° | 0m | |
| 6.4km | 0.5km | Sharks & Rays join @ 10:15am - 460mya - Portico Church (WR) | Here we find a common concestor that is ancestor to all gnathostomes, animals with lower jaws, a structure which evolved from the gill arches. | SW | 218° | 0m |
| 6.7km | 0.3km | 460mya | SW | 220° | 0m | |
| 6.7km | 0km | Ray finned fish join @ 10:30am - Barbertown x Mississauga Rd. | Fish, eels, mudskippers and sea-horses appear around 440mya having survived the first major extinction of the Ordovician-Silurian transition around 450mya | NNW | 316° | 0m |
| 7km | 0.3km | 440mya | NNW | 316° | 0m | |
| 7.2km | 0.1km | 420mya | NNW | 316° | 0m | |
| 7.2km | 0.1km | 417mya | NNW | 316° | 0m | |
| 7.3km | 0.1km | Lungfish join @ 10:45am - Reid Dr. | Lobe finned air breathing bony aquatic fish make an appearance around 417mya | NW | 309° | 0m |
| 7.5km | 0.2km | 400MYA 2nd Major Extinction - Old Station Rd. | Starts 375mya and lasts 15-20my to 360mya where upto 70% of all species died out. | NNW | 316° | 0m |
| 7.8km | 0.3km | 375mya | NE | 45° | 0m | |
| 8km | 0.2km | Amphibians join @ 11:00am - Vic Johnson Arena (WR) | Frogs, salamanders and caecilians appear around 340mya. These will give rise to all terrestrial vertebrates. | NNW | 322° | 0m |
| 8.2km | 0.1km | 340mya | NNW | 321° | 0m | |
| 8.6km | 0.4km | Sauropsids join 310mya @ 11:15am | The concestor of all reptiles (including turtles, lizards, snakes and dinosaurs) and the precursor of birds evolve. | NNW | 349° | 0m |
| 9.2km | 0.7km | 3rd Major Extinction | Permian-Triassic starts 251mya and ends 205mya allowing the dinosaurs to thrive exploiting almost all ecological niches. | NW | 310° | 0m |
| 9.3km | 0.1km | 251mya | NW | 301° | 0m | |
| 9.6km | 0.3km | 230mya - Triassiac | Dinosaurs evolve and compete with other large amphibians for terrestrial spaces. | ESE | 102° | 0m |
| 9.9km | 0.3km | 4th Major Extinction - Rivergrove CC (WR) | Triassic-Jurassic extinction 205mya | NNW | 319° | 0m |
| 10km | 0.1km | 200MYA | NE | 43° | 0m | |
| 10.1km | 0.1km | Monotremes join @ 11:40am | Echidna and platypus are the surviving descendents of concestors that evolved 180mya that were first to develop a NeoCortex in their brains. | WNW | 273° | 0m |
| 10.6km | 0.5km | Marsupials join @12:00pm - Britannia | Kangaroos, wallabies, sugar gliders, opposums and marsupial moles evolve 140mya | NNW | 323° | 0m |
| 11.4km | 0.8km | Laurasiatheres join at 12:15n | The concestor of this extremely diverse group of mammals evolves 85mya but the various genera are still confined to disparate ecological niches due to the overpowering dominance of the dinosaurs. | NW | 310° | 0m |
| 11.7km | 0.3km | 5th Great Extinction | Extinction of the dinosaurs 65mya | NNW | 318° | 0m |
| 12.5km | 0.8km | END: 7 billion Humans @ 12:30p - Pinecliff Dr. Park | Current time, the earth has been completely over-run by humans, who, by their activities , are changing the climate which threatens all life on earth which cannot evolve to accommodate these changes. | NNW | 341° | 0m |