Lepidus

Il num vul dir: “fascinating”1

Mangiava: CharnDinos carnivorsTriassic tardiv

Lepidus was a small, meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Texas, USA, during the Late Triassic period. It was one of the earliest neotheropods, a group that includes famous dinosaurs like Coelophysis. Scientists know it from just a few bones, including an ankle and a piece of its upper jaw.2 1

Viveva

avant 227 fin 206 milliuns onns2

Triassic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Howard County, Texas, USA1

Spertadad maximala

var 47 km/h (29 mph)

Currer, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant spert era el?

Ina persuna che va a pe var 5 km/h (3 mph)

In uffant sin il velo var 12 km/h (7 mph)

Lepidus var 47 km/h (29 mph)

In chaval che galoppescha var 65 km/h (40 mph)

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Lepidus was named in 2015 by scientists Sterling Nesbitt and Martín Ezcurra.2

Its name comes from Latin and means 'fascinating' or 'charming'.1

Lepidus is known from only a few bones: an ankle, a piece of the upper jaw, and a thigh bone.1

It lived during the Norian stage of the Late Triassic, about 227 to 205 million years ago.2

Lepidus was a coelophysoid neotheropod, meaning it was more closely related to Coelophysis than to Allosaurus.1

The fossils were found near the famous Otis Chalk localities in Texas, which are among the oldest dinosaur sites in North America.1

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Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Lepidus
Numnà da: Nesbitt and Ezcurra 20152
Gruppa: Dinos carnivors
Famiglia / clada: Coelophysidae2
Classificaziun: Theropoda > Coelophysoidea2
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 227 fin 206 milliuns onns (Norian)2
Pajais: USA2
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database2
Scuverta: Lepidus was discovered by a Works Progress Administration paleontology team in the 1940s, but it was not named until 2015 by Sterling Nesbitt and Martín Ezcurra.1
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure exactly how old the Lepidus fossils are, because the rocks where they were found have not been dated with radiometric methods.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas (app.pan.pl)
Lepidus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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