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Paluxy Man

Paluxy Man proper noun: a hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl).

Proper noun

Paluxy man

  1. A hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl).
    • Langston also noted that one of the most widely reproduced footprint photos of Paluxy man shows a portion of a poor print of a tridactyl dinosaur; this may be clear, however, only to someone who, having studied the anatomy of the dinosaur foot, knows what to look for.1981 Fall, Christopher Gregory Weber, “Paluxy Man—The Creationist Piltdown”, in Creation/Evolution, volume 6
    • Cryptozoology: The study of Bigfoot, Paluxy Man, the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman (Yetti) and other things that go bump in the night.1987, Robert Sinclair Dietz & John C. Holden, Creation/evolution Satiricon: creationism bashed, page 87

Origin of Paluxy Man

After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found

Questions about Paluxy Man

What does Paluxy Man mean?
Paluxy Man means a hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl).
What part of speech is Paluxy Man?
Paluxy Man is a proper noun.

Words near Paluxy Man in the dictionary

  1. palustral
  2. palustrian
  3. palustric
  4. palustrine
  5. palustrous
  6. Paluxy Man
  7. Palwal
  8. palwar
  9. palwars
  10. paly
  11. palygorskite

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