Citipes
Name: Citipes
(fllet-footed).
Phonetic: Sit-i-pes.
Named By: Gregory Funston - 2020.
Synonyms: Chirostenotes elegans,
Elmisaurus elegans, Leptorhynchos elegans, Ornithomimus elegans.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria, Caenagnathidae,
Elmisaurinae.
Species: C. elegans (type).
Diet: Uncertain/herbivore?
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Canada, Alberta - Dinosaur
Park Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains including
limbs bones, pelvis and jaw.
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.
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