English: Restoration of the Late Triassic Saltopus ("Leaping foot") squatting, preparing for a leap.
This restoration is mostly a guesswork: it is un certain what for a type of archosaurianSaltopus is, since the fossil that have been found is very incomplete. Intially considered a primitive theropoddinosaur related to Coelophysis, it is now considered to be a non-dinosaurian dinosauriform.[1]Saltopus was a small animal, often described as "the size of a domestic cat".
Tail (caudal vertebrae): >23 cm. (tip of the tail missing).
Thorax (thoracic and lumbar vertebrae): 13-15 cm.
References
↑ abBenton M.J. & Walker A.D. (2010). "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh101(3): p. 285 - 299. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020081
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