Outline: a typical theropod
Citipes
"fleet-footed"
Type species Citipes elegans
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Caenagnathidae
- Found in
- Canada and United States
- Named by
- Funston 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Citipes
What it was like
Citipes was a small caenagnathid, a toothless, feathered relative of Oviraptor. It is known from foot bones, which were long and slender, suited for running.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada. Its bones come from the Dinosaur Park Formation, where it shared the land with Troodon, the tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus and the armored Edmontonia.
How it was found
Its bones were first placed in other genera. Funston gave it its own name in 2020. The type species is Citipes elegans.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Caenagnathidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: G. F. Funston. 2020. Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 8:105-153