CITIPES
a caenagnathid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada.
Pronunciation: sit-eye-pez
Meaning: Fleet footed
Author/s: Funston (
2020)
Synonyms: See
below
First Discovery: Alberta, Canada
Acta Ordinal: #1062
Citipes elegans
(Fleet Footed and Elegant)Etymology
Citipes is a Latin term that means "fleet-footed".
The
species epithet,
elegans, means "elegant" in Latin.
Ornithomimus elegans (Parks, 1933)
Macrophalangia elegans (Russell, 1972)
Elmisaurus elegans (Currie, 1989)
Chironstenotes elegans (Sues, 1997)
Leptorhynchos elegans (Longrich, 2013)
Discovery
The remains that would become
Citipes were discovered in the Dinosaur Park Formation at Little Sandhill Creek, Red Deer River
Valley, Alberta, Canada, during a University of Toronto expedition in 1926.
The
holotype (ROM 781) is a "tarsometatarsus" (three foot bones [metatarsals] and a cluster of bones that connect said foot bones to the lower leg).
Referred specimens include TMP 1982.016.0006 and TMP 1996.012.0141 (a left and right tarsometatarsus); TMP 1982.039.0004 (a partial tarsometatarsus); TMP 1988.036.0104, UALVP 55585, UALVP 59606 and ROM 37163 (four partial metatarsals); UALVP 55639 (tooth-bearing bones of the lower jaw), and possibly TMP 1981.023.0034–35 and TMP 1981.023.0039 (hip bones and an associated hip vertebra); TMP 1992.036.0674 (a diseased hip bone); and TMP 1994.012.0880 (a left shin).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian
Age range: 77-76 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 2.1 meters
Est. max. hip height: 0.8 meters
Est. max. weight: 35 Kg
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Parks WA (1933) "New species of dinosaurs and turtles from the Upper Cretaceous formations of Alberta".
University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series, 34: 1-33.
• Russell DA (1972) "Ostrich Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Western Canada".
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 9(4): 375–402. DOI: 10.1139/e72-031.
• Currie PJ (1989) "The first records of
Elmisaurus (Saurischia, Theropoda) from North America".
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26(6): 1319-1324. DOI: 10.1139/e89-111.
• Sues H-D (1997) "On
Chirostenotes, a Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Western North America".
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(4): 698-716. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1997.10011018.
• Eberth DA (2005) "The Geology". Page 54–82 in Currie and Koppelhus (eds.) "
Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed".
• Longrich NR, Barnes K, Clark S and Millar L (2013) "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae".
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 54: 23-49. DOI: 10.3374/014.054.0102.
• Longrich NR, Barnes K, Clark S and Millar L (October 2013) Erratum: Correction to "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae".
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 54(2): 263-264. DOI: 10.3374/014.054.0204.
• Molina-Pérez R and Larramendi A (2019) "
Encyclopedia of
Dinosaurs: The Theropods" [aka Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Theropods and other
Dinosauriformes.]".
• Rhodes MM, Funston GF and Currie PJ (2020) "New material reveals the pelvic morphology of Caenagnathidae (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria)".
Cretaceous Research, 114: 104521. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104521.
• Funston G (2020) "Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution".
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, 8: 105-153. DOI: 10.18435/vamp29362.
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