Velocipes
Velocipes | |
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Fibula of the holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Eusaurischia
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Clade: | Theropoda (?) |
Genus: | †Velocipes Huene, 1932 |
Species: | †V. guerichi
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Binomial name | |
†Velocipes guerichi Huene, 1932
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Velocipes (meaning "quick foot") is a
Upon discovery, Velocipes was thought to have been a
History and taxonomy
The
A later paper, published in 2000 by Rauhut and Hungerbuhler, claimed that the only specimen of this animal was not well preserved enough to be confidently identified as part of a fibula, and classified the genus as an "indeterminate
However, an SVP abstract reviewing putative
Description
The surviving portion of the fibula is 16.4 cm long and after comparing the bone to other related theropods, it is believed that the full fibula was roughly 30-35 cm in length.[12] The medial surface is slightly concave, suggesting that Velocipes may have been a neotheropod,[12] and on the lateral surface of the bone there is a clear ridge about 52 mm long and about 5 mm high.
It is assumed that, based on the estimated size of the fibula, Velocipes may have reached up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) long and weighed around 50 kilograms (110 lb),[12][5] although this can only be speculated as only one specimen of Velocipes is currently known to exist.[2]
Paleoecology
Velocipes would have been contemporaneous with the aetosaur genus Kocurypelta, an indeterminate species of lungfish and the stem-turtle Proterochersis cf. porebensis.[5]
References
- ^ a b Velocipes on the Dinosaur Mailing List
- ^ a b Huene, F. von. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monogr. Geol. Pal. 4 (1) pts. 1 and 2, viii + 361 pp.
- ^ Gürich G. (1898), "The Paleozoic of the Polish Low Mountains", Verhandlungen der Russischen Kaiserlichen Gesellschaft zu Saint Petersburg 32 1898:1–539).
- ^ Gürich, G. (1884). Über einige Saurier des oberschlesischen Muschelkalkes. Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 26: 136-141.
- ^ S2CID 233522981.
- ^ von Huene F. (1956). Paläontologie und Phylogenie der niederen Tetrapoden. Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
- Dilophosaurus wetherilli(Dinosauria: Theropoda) osteology and comparisons. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 185: 85-180.
- ^ Rauhut, O. W., and Hungerbühler, A. (2000). "A review of European Triassic theropods." Gaia, 15: 75-88.
- ^ Tykoski RS, Rowe TB (2004). Ceratosauria. In: Weishampel DB, Dodson P., Osmólska H. (ed.). The Dinosauria. II edition. Berkeley: California University Press, pp. 47-70.
- ^ Weishampel DB, Barrett PM, Coria RA, Le Loeuff J., Xu X., Zhao X., Sahni A., Gomani EMP, Noto CR (2004). Dinosaur distribution. In: Weishampel DB, Dodson P., Osmólska H. (eds). The Dinosauria. II edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 517–606.
- ^ Czepinski et al., (2014). A Re-evaluation of the Purported Dinosaur Finds From The Middle-Late Triassic Of Poland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (Supplement to volume 5): 115A.
- ^ .