"Paluxy Man" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Paluxy man [canonical]
Etymology: After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Paluxy man}} 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).
    Sense id: en-Paluxy_Man-en-name-tmMyHW0l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1981 Fall, Christopher Gregory Weber, “Paluxy Man—The Creationist Piltdown”, in Creation/Evolution, volume 6:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1987, Robert Sinclair Dietz & John C. Holden, Creation/evolution Satiricon: creationism bashed, page 87:",
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