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After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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 a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl). Full definition →
After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.