Paluxy Man

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Paluxy Man

1. (archaeology) 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.