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单词 Paluxy Man
释义

Paluxy Man

English

Etymology

After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found

Proper noun

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 for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl dinosaur).
    • 1981 Fall, Christopher Gregory Weber, “Paluxy Man—The Creationist Piltdown”, in Creation/Evolution, volume 6:
      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.
    • 1987, Robert Sinclair Dietz & ‎John C. Holden, Creation/evolution Satiricon: creationism bashed, page 87:
      Cryptozoology: The study of Bigfoot, Paluxy Man, the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman (Yetti) and other things that go bump in the night.
    • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 181:
      The upshot was that the evidence against was so substantive and so convincing that a self-proclaimed creation scientist subsequently rejected his authentication of the Paluxy Man and caused his publisher to recall the book he'd written about it.
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