Genus
Valid Extinct

Lepidus

Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015

Lepidus is a genus of extinct theropod from the Upper Triassic of the United States. It lived in the Otis Chalk localities of the Dockum Group in Texas, from 231 to 223 million years ago.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Lepidus
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Amphidromus lepidus (A. Gould, 1856); family Camaenidae; syntype © Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
Lepidus
Lepidus
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Coelophysoidea Superfamily
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Coelophysidae Family
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Coelophysinae Subfamily
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Lepidus Genus
Measurements
Length
3,15 m ⓘ
Lepidus praecisio
Mass
44 kg ⓘ
Lepidus praecisio
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Lepidus praecisio 227 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015. The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):513-526 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015. The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):513-526 DOI ↗