...Chirotherium for the great unknown animal that formed the larger footsteps, from the distant resemblance, hoth of the fore and hind feet, to the impression of a human hand ; and he conjectures that they may have been derived from some quadruped allied to the MarsupLJia. The presence...

...breadth. Professor Kaup has provisionally assigned to it the name of Chirotherium, from the distant resemblance, both of the fore and hind feet, to the impression of a human hand. The slab, bearing these impressions, has been deposited by Mr. John Tomkinson,of Liverpool, in the...

...described them (1834) proposed the name of Cheirotheriwn (c-heir, the hand, therion, beast) for the unknown animal that had left the footprints, in consequence...conjectured that the animal might be a large species of the opossum kind; but in DiJc/|,hys the thumb is on the inner side of the hind-foot. The fossil skulls,...

...described them (1834) proposed the name of Cheirotherium (cheir, the hand, therion, beast) for the 1mknown animal that had left the footprints, in consequence...conjectured that the animal might be a large species of the opossum kind ; but in Didelphys the thumb is on the inner side of the hind-foot. The fossil skulls,...

...first described them in 1834, proposed the name of Cheirotherium l for the great unknown animal that left the footprints, in consequence of the resemblance,...and hind feet, to the impression of a human hand. No certain remains of the creatures whose tracks we are now considering have yet been discovered in...

...geologist who first described them (1834) proposed the name of Cheirotherium (cheir, the hand, thcrion, beast) for the great unknown animal that had left...conjectured that the animal might be a large species of the opossum kind ; but in Didelphys the thumb is on the inner side of the hind-foot. The fossil skulls,...