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Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology/Plate 26″

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Plate 26″. V. I. p. 203.

Impression of the hind foot of Chirotherium, selected from a well-preserved Track upon a slab of sandstone from Hildburghausen, in the British Museum. (Original.)


Plate 26‴. V. I. p. 203.

Footsteps of a small web-footed animal, probably crocodile an, drawn from a Cast of impressions on Sandstone, found near Hildburghausen. (Original.)

The Sandstones in which all these fossil footsteps have been discovered in Germany and Scotland, appear to be referable to the same division of the secondary strata,