Cheirothe'rium (Gr., 'hand-beast'), the name originally given to the Labyrinthodont (q.v.), from the peculiar hand-like impressions left by it in the Triassic rocks.
Cheirothe'rium
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 144
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