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sharp-clawed runner
Anomalipes
Say it like this: “a-NOH-ma-LEE-pez”
Anomalipes zhaoi
Anomalipes ate plants and meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2018 · Yu, Y.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Sullivan, C.; Wang, S.; Wang, P.; Xu, X.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China
- Food and walking
- Omnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Caenagnathidae
The story in short
In 2018, Y. Yu and colleagues published the name Anomalipes. The name means “unusual foot.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China. It was an omnivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Anomalipes are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Caenagnathidae, among the theropod dinosaurs.