A hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossilfootprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl dinosaur).
Origin
After Paluxy Creek, a river where the controversial fossils were found
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