Velocipes guerichi
"quick foot"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Velocipes 3 m (9.8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (221.5–205.6 Mya)
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Velocipes (meaning “quick foot”) is a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic that may have been a theropod. Its fossils were found in the Norian-aged Lissauer Breccia of southern Poland. Upon discovery, Velocipes was thought to have been a coelurosaur, but more recent studies have shown that Velocipes was probably a basal theropod or dinosauriform.
What we know
- Named by Huene, 1932.
- Body length estimated at about 3 m.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Velocipes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.