Cheirotherium

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cheirotherium
(Poleon) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

(n) Cheirotherium
kī-ro-thēr′i-um the name originally given to the Labyrinthodont, from its peculiar hand-like impressions in the Triassic rocks

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + qhri`on beast

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Gr. cheir, hand, thērion, beast.

Usage in literature

Another may have been the Cheirotherium. "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by James De Mille

Cheirotherium, in old red sandstone and coal, 136. "Principles of Geology" by Charles Lyell

Cheirotherium, footprints of, 290. "A Manual of Elementary Geology" by Charles Lyell

Typos

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