Anomalipes
| Anomalipes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Caenagnathidae |
| Genus: | †Anomalipes Yu et al., 2018 |
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| Anomalipes zhaoi Yu et al., 2018
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Anomalipes (meaning "Zhao Xijin's unusual foot") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian age) Wangshi Group of China. The genus contains a single species, Anomalipes zhaoi, known from a partial hindlimb.[2]
Discovery and naming
[edit]The remains of Anomalipes were discovered within a Shantungosaurus bonebed at the Kugou locality. The holotype (ZCDM V0020, housed at Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum, Zhucheng, Shandong) is an incomplete left hind-limb, including a partial left thigh, shin and shank, a complete metatarsal III and two toe bones.[2]
The genus name Anomalipes is derived from the Latin anomalus (peculiar, abnormal, not easily classified) and pes (foot), referring to the unusual shape of its foot. The specific name, zhaoi, was named in honour of Zhao Xijin.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ An, Wei; Kuang, Hong-Wei; Liu, Yong-Qing; Peng, Nan; Xu, Ke-Min; Xu, Huan; Zhang, Peng; Wang, Ke-Bai; Chen, Shu-Qing; Zhang, Yan-Xia (January 2016). "Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China". Journal of Palaeogeography. 5 (1): 72–99. doi:10.1016/j.jop.2015.11.002.
- ^ a b c Yilun Yu; Kebai Wang; Shuqing Chen; Corwin Sullivan; Shuo Wang; Peiye Wang; Xing Xu (2018). "A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): Article number 5030. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23252-2. PMC 5864915. PMID 29567954.
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