Anomalipes
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Anomalipes
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Caenagnathidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Yu et al. 2018
Field notes
About Anomalipes
Anomalipes was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Caenagnathidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Anomalipes, from China. Its fossils come from the Hongtuya Formation. It was named by Yu et al. in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Caenagnathidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y.-L. Yu, K.-B. Wang, and S.-Q. Chen, C. Sullivan, S. Wang, P.-Y. Wang, X. Xu . 2018. A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs. Scientific Reports 8:5030