Anomalipes

Name: Anomalipes ‭(‬unusual foot).
Phonetic: Ah-nom-ah-lipes.
Named By: Yilun Yu,‭ ‬Kebai Wang,‭ ‬Shuqing Chen,‭ ‬Corwin Sullivan,‭ ‬Shuo Wang,‭ ‬Peiye Wang‭ & ‬Xing Xu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2018.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Theropoda,‭ ‬Oviraptorosauria,‭ ‬Caenagnathidae.
Species: A.‭ ‬zhaoi‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Unknown.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: China,‭ ‬Shandong.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Left hind limb.

       Anomalipes is a genus of caenagnathid oviraptosaurid dinosaur that lived in asia during the late Cretaceous.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong,‭ ‬China,‭ ‬with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Scientific Reports.‭ ‬8:‭ ‬Article number‭ ‬5030.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yilun Yu,‭ ‬Kebai Wang,‭ ‬Shuqing Chen,‭ ‬Corwin Sullivan,‭ ‬Shuo Wang,‭ ‬Peiye Wang‭ & ‬Xing Xu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2018.



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