In Depth
Fossils of Citipes were first described in 1933, but as a species of Ornithomimus. After this they subsequently moved into the Elmisaurus and Leptorhynchos genera respectively, before finally being described as a distinct genus in 2020. Citipes is a genus of oviraptosaur dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- New species of dinosaurs and turtles from the Upper Cretaceous formations of Alberta. - University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series, 34: 1-33. - W. A. parks - 1933.
- Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae. - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54: 23–49. - N. R. Longrich, K. Barnes, S. Clark & L. Millar - 2013.
- Correction to ‘Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae’. - N. R. Longrich, K. Barnes, S. Clark & L. Millar - 2013.
- Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution. - Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 8: 105–153. - Gregory Funston - 2020.