Chirotherium
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chirotherium-245-4709189
title:
Chirotherium
text:
Chirotherium, also known as Cheirotherium (‘hand-beast’), is a Triassic trace fossil consisting of five-fingered (pentadactyle) footprints and whole tracks. These look, by coincidence, remarkably like the hands of apes 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
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Trace fossil
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirotherium
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-07T10:08:41Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
15