52 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, FISHES. 
Gallery 11, 
Wall-oases 
8 - 10 . 
are shaped somewhat like impressions of a human hand, 
and hence are referred to an unidentified Cheirotherium 
(“ hand-beast ”). There are small prints for the fore feet and 
large prints for the hind feet, and a close examination of the 
tracks shows that the “ opposable thumb ” is on the outer 
side of the foot, so really corresponds with the little finger or 
little toe of man. The so-called Ichnium sphcerodactylum 
from the Permian of Thuringia is a nearly similar footprint, 
and is scattered over a large slab of red sandstone in 
Wall-case 10, which also exhibits suncracks and rainprints. 
Three-toed footprints from the Trias of North America 
(Wall-case 9) were probably made by Dinosaurs. Some large 
three-toed footprints of Iguanodon from the Wealden of 
Hastings are placed for comparison in Wall-case 8; and 
there is, on an adjoining stand, a slab of Purbeck Stone 
bearing similar impressions. 
