Citipes

Citipes
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
~76.9 to 75.8 Ma - Campanian
A diagram of all known material from Citipes with the material described in 2020 shown in pink
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Caenagnathidae
Subfamily: †Elmisaurinae (?)
Genus: †Citipes
Funston, 2020
Type species
†Ornithomimus elegans
Parks, 1933
Species
  • †Citipes elegans (Parks, 1933) Funston, 2020
Synonyms
Not to be confused with Citipati.

Citipes (/ˈsɪtipɛz/) is an extinct genus of caenagnathid theropod from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. The genus contains only one species, the type species, C. elegans. The generic name of Citipes is Latin for "fleet-footed", and the specific epithet "elegans" is Latin for "elegant".[1] The type specimen of Citipes has a convoluted taxonomic history, and has been previously assigned to the genera Ornithomimus,[2] Macrophalangia,[3] Elmisaurus,[4] Chirostenotes,[5] and Leptorhynchos[6] before being given its own genus in 2020.[1]

  1. ^ a b Funston, Gregory (July 27, 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. ISSN 2292-1389.
  2. ^ Parks, William A. (1933). "New Species of Dinosaurs and Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Formations of Alberta". University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series. 43: 4–44.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference macro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Currie, Philip J. (1989). "The first records of Elmisaurus (Saurischia, Theropoda) from North America". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 26 (6): 1319–1324. Bibcode:1989CaJES..26.1319C. doi:10.1139/e89-111.
  5. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter (1997). "On Chirostenotes , a Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from western North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17 (4): 698–716. Bibcode:1997JVPal..17..698S. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011018.
  6. ^ Longrich, N. R.; Barnes, K.; Clark, S.; 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. S2CID 128444961.