Aethyopus
Aethyopus was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived a very long time ago, during the Late Triassic period. It is known only from fossil footprints, so scientists are still learning what it looked like.1
When did it live?
Fun facts
Aethyopus is known only from fossil footprints, not from bones.1
It lived between about 227 and 205 million years ago, during the Norian stage of the Late Triassic.1
The name Aethyopus was given by Edward Hitchcock in 1848.2
Aethyopus is sometimes considered a synonym of another footprint genus called Sauropus.1
Its footprints are tridactyl, meaning they have three toes.1
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- Scientific name
- Aethyopus
- Named by
- Hitchcock 18482
- Group
- Meat-eating dinos
- Family / clade
- Sauropodidae2
- Classification
- Theropoda2
- Age of the rocks
- 227 to 206 million years (Norian)2
- Fossil records
- 8 in the Paleobiology Database2
- Discovery
- Aethyopus was named by Edward Hitchcock in 1848 based on fossil footprints found in the USA.2
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure if Aethyopus is a valid dinosaur or just a footprint that belongs to another animal.1
Where the facts come from
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Aethyopus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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