Avipes

Extinct genus of reptiles

Avipes
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 240 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Clade: Archosauria
Genus: Avipes
Type species
Avipes dillstedtianus
Huene, 1932

Avipes (meaning "bird foot") is a genus of extinct archosaurs represented by the single species Avipes dillstedtianus, which lived during the middle Triassic period. The only known fossil specimen, a partial foot (metatarsals), was found in Bedheim, Thuringia, Germany, in deposits of Lettenkohlensandstein (a form of sandstone). Avipes was named in 1932 by Huene. Although originally classified as a coelurosaur or a ceratosaur, a new study of the fossil specimen found that it was too incomplete to assign to a group more specific than Archosauria, and so it was regarded as indeterminate by Rauhut and Hungerbuhler in 2000.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Rauhut, O. W., and Hungerbühler, A. (2000). "A review of European Triassic theropods." Gaia, 15: 75-88.
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Sauropsida
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Archosauromorpha
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Trachelosauridae
Sharovipterygidae?
Tanystropheidae
Allokotosauria
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Rhynchosauria
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Prolacertidae?
Archosauriformes
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Sharovipteryx mirabilis

Macrocnemus basanii

Prolacerta broomi
Proterosuchidae
Protopyknosia
Erythrosuchidae
Euparkeriidae
Proterochampsia
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Phytosauria
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Archosauria
Incertae sedis
Avemetatarsalia
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Pseudosuchia
Proterosuchus fergusi

Erythrosuchus africanus

Euparkeria capensis
Tooth taxa
Nomina dubia
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Taxon identifiers
Avipes
Avipes dillstedtianus


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