[N] 2004 Fossil find \\\'oldest land animal\\\'
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A fossil collected near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire by amateur fossil hunter, Mike Newman a Aberdeen busdriver is according to experts at the National Museums of Scotland and Yale University, the oldest creature known to have lived on land. The one-centimetre which was prised out of a siltstone bed is 428 million years old. The fossil is named Pneumodesmus newmani.