Outline: a typical theropod
Lepidus
"charming"
- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Coelophysidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
220 million years ago
Field notes
About Lepidus
What it was like
Lepidus was a small, slender predator related to Coelophysis. It is known from part of a leg and a few other bones.
Its world
It lived in the Late Triassic in what is now Texas.
How it was found
Nesbitt and Ezcurra named it in 2015.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelophysidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: 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