Lepidus le-PI-du
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lepidus 3 m (9.8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (227.3–205.7 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Coelophysidae
Lepidus is a coelophysidae known from the Triassic period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015.