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Paluxy River
The Paluxy River, also known as the Paluxy Creek, is a river in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a tributary of the Brazos River. It is formed by the convergence of the ''North Paluxy River'' and the ''South Paluxy River'' near Bluff Dale, Texas in Erath County and flows a distance of before joining the Brazos just to the east of Glen Rose, Texas in south central Somervell County.〔(Handbook of Texas, Paluxy River )〕
It is best known for numerous dinosaur footprints found in its bed near Glen Rose at the Dinosaur Valley State Park. The Paluxy River became famous for controversy in the early 1930s when locals found dinosaur and supposed human footprints in the same rock layer in the Glen Rose Formation, which were widely publicized as evidence against the geological time scale and in favor of young-Earth creationism. However, these anachronistic "human" footprints have been determined to be mistaken interpretation or hoaxes.〔(The Texas Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy ), by Glen Kuban Talk.Origins〕〔(Weber, Christopher Gregory. "Paluxy Man — The Creationist Piltdown". ''Creation/Evolution Journal,'' 1981, pp. 16-22. )〕
==Paluxy Trackways==
Many dinosaur trackways and footprints have been discovered in the riverbed, some as early as 1908. Most tracks in the area were found in Cretaceous limestone.〔(Branch, G. (2006). Paluxy Footprints. In H. J. Birx (Ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Anthropology'' (Vol. 4, p. 1818). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference. )〕 One of the most well-known is the chase sequence, which contains the tracks of a herd of sauropods and at least one theropod following the herd.〔Farlow, J. O., et al (2010). ''Dinosaur tracksites of the Paluxy River (Glen Rose Formation, Lower Cretaceous), Dinosaur Valley State Park, Somervell County, Texas, USA.'' Fifth Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Salas de los Infantes, Burgos, Spain, pp. 15-16.〕 Other well-known and studied sites containing similar trackways are the Taylor Site, the Blue Hole Ballroom, and the Blue Hole Parlor.〔 In 1938, paleontologist Roland Bird discovered tracks in the Paluxy River. The documenting and publishing of these findings made the site famous and attracted the attention of researchers, some of whom began to claim that some of the tracks were human footprints.〔
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