FOOTPRINTS ON ANCIENT SANDS 



rock, showing the five-fingered hand-Uke foot- 

 prints of the Cheirotherium (as it was once 

 called), a huge salamander-like animal. 



Fig. 40. — Slab of Triassic rock from Saxony, showing hand- 

 like five-fingered footprints, each seven inches long, 

 probably due to a Labyrinthodon which walked over this 

 substance when it was soft wet sand. These footprints 

 occur also in rocks of the same age in Cheshire. 



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