48 E. Hitchcock on Fossil Footmarks of the Connecticut Valley. 
anomalous animal, the Anomcepus. The trifid tracks of its 
hind feet had been mistaken by us all for those of birds. Indeed, 
the number of phalanges in the toes were found without much 
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doubt to correspond with those of living birds, and also with — 
those Lithichnozoa which I had regarded as birds. But the — 
Anomeepus had been proved without question to be four-footed: 
Are we not forced to the conclusion that all the Lithichnozoa — 
with similar trifid feet must be quadrupeds 
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Another development as to the Phalanges.—Probably I should — 
ere long have come to this conclusion, had not another discovery 
awaited me. Among the new specimens purchased sh one very — 
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beautiful tow of thick-toed trifid tracks, such as 
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in the habit of supposing made by birds; ‘put I haste: little doubt — 
that they were those of an Anomcepus, though no marks of fore 
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