Saltopus
Field photograph to come
Saltopus
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- Lived
- 237 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Early dinosaurs
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Huene 1910
Field notes
About Saltopus
Saltopus was a meat-eating early dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic, 237 to 206 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Saltopus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation. It was named by Huene in 1910.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
220 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Saurischia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin [A primitive dinosaur from the Middle Trias of Elgin]. Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen (n.s.) 8(6):317-322