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sharp-clawed runner
Erectopus
Say it like this: “ee-REK-toe-puss”
Erectopus superbus
Erectopus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1923 · Huene, F. V.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 5 m · 16 ft
- Weight
- 200 kg · 441 lb
- Found in
- France
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Allosauroidea
The story in short
In 1923, F. V. Huene published the name Erectopus. The name means “upright foot.”
Fossils referred to Erectopus date to the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from France. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Erectopus at a length near 5 m and a body mass around 200 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Allosauroidea, among the theropod dinosaurs.