Velocipes

DV-0149 · type species Velocipes guerichi

Lived: 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: Poland
Named by: Huene 1932

Field notes

About Velocipes

Velocipes was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Velocipes, from Poland. Its fossils come from the Lissauer Breccia Formation. It was named by Huene in 1932.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

220 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Neotheropoda.

DilophosaurusEarly Jurassic
LiliensternusLate Triassic
DracovenatorEarly Jurassic
ZupaysaurusLate Triassic
NotatesseraeraptorLate Triassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361