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SALTOPUS "Leaping Foot" |
Saltopus was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two legs. It was about 2 feet long (0.7 m) and weighing about 2 pounds (1 kg), about the size of a small cat. It had light, hollow bones, and a long head with dozens of small, sharp teeth. Saltopus has five fingers on its hands, but the fourth and fifth digits were very small.
Saltopus was named by the German paleontologist Friedrick von Huene in 1910. Partial fossils have been found in Scotland.
CLASSIFICATION
Saltopus may have been a saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaur, a theropod, and a member of the infraorder Herrerasauria (which includes Herrerasaurus, Staurikosaurus, Eoraptor, and other very early dinosaurs). Saltopus is only known from fragmentary remains and its classification is uncertain; it may have been a lagosuchid (primitive reptiles that led to the dinosaurs) or an ornithosuchian (not dinosaurs, but closely-related archosauromorphs).
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