Chirotherium
Chirotherium, also known as Cheirotherium (‘hand-beast’), is the name of a Triassic trace fossil consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyle) footprints and whole tracks. These look, by coincidence, remarkably like the hands of apes, humans, and bears, with the outermost toe having evolved to extend out to the side like a thumb, although probably only functioning to provide a firmer grip in mud. Chirotherium tracks were first found in 1834 in Lower Triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein) in Thuringia, Germany, dating from about 243 million years ago (mya).
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Chirotherium
Chirotherium, also known as Cheirotherium (‘hand-beast’), is the name of a Triassic trace fossil consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyle) footprints and whole tracks. These look, by coincidence, remarkably like the hands of apes, humans, and bears, with the outermost toe having evolved to extend out to the side like a thumb, although probably only functioning to provide a firmer grip in mud. Chirotherium tracks were first found in 1834 in Lower Triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein) in Thuringia, Germany, dating from about 243 million years ago (mya).
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Chirotherium ist eine Spurenfo ...... oder Synaptichnium bezeichnet.
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Chirotherium, also known as Ch ...... nivores with semi-erect gaits.
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Cheirotherium trace fossil, displayed in Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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*C. barthii (Kaup, 1835)
*C. s ...... eum (DeMathieu & Durand, 1991)
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*Chirosaurus (Kaup, 1835)
*Che ...... *Saurichnites (Kirchner, 1927)
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Chirotherium ist eine Spurenfo ...... en „Rauisuchiern“, verursacht.
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Chirotherium, also known as Ch ...... t 243 million years ago (mya).
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Chirotherium
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Chirotherium
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