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GALLERY No. 11.—FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS. 
Under certain circumstances footprints may be preserved 
as fossils, and in some rocks of Triassic and Permian age the 
only evidence of life is afforded by such footprints. There is 
Fig. 46. —Footprints of Cheirotherium barthi, with sun-cracks, from the 
Bunter Sandstone of Hessberg, Saxony; about one-tenth nat. size. 
(Wall-case 10, Gallery 11.) 
a large series of these fossils in the collection, and as they 
cannot yet be ascribed to the animals which made them, they 
are arranged together in Gallery 11, Wall-cases 8-10. Most 
of the footprints from the English and German Trias (Fig. 46) 
e 2 
G-allery 11, 
Wall-cases 
8 - 10 . 
