Anomalipes
{{Short description|Genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs}}
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| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, {{Fossil range|77.3|73.5|77.3–73.5 Ma{{Cite journal |last1=An |first1=Wei |last2=Kuang |first2=Hong-Wei |last3=Liu |first3=Yong-Qing |last4=Peng |first4=Nan |last5=Xu |first5=Ke-Min |last6=Xu |first6=Huan |last7=Zhang |first7=Peng |last8=Wang |first8=Ke-Bai |last9=Chen |first9=Shu-Qing |last10=Zhang |first10=Yan-Xia |date=January 2016 |title=Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China |journal=Journal of Palaeogeography |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=72–99 |doi=10.1016/j.jop.2015.11.002}}}}
| image = Anomalipes_pes.jpg
| image_caption = Pedal elements
| taxon = Anomalipes
| authority = Yu et al., 2018
| type_species = Anomalipes zhaoi
| type_species_authority = Yu et al., 2018
}}
Anomalipes (meaning "Zhao Xijin's unusual foot") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian age) Wangshi Group of China. The genus contains a single species, Anomalipes zhaoi, known from a partial hindlimb.{{Cite journal|author1=Yilun Yu |author2=Kebai Wang |author3=Shuqing Chen |author4=Corwin Sullivan |author5=Shuo Wang |author6=Peiye Wang |author7=Xing Xu |year=2018 |title=A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 5030 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-23252-2 |pmc=5864915 |pmid=29567954}}
Discovery and naming
The remains of Anomalipes were discovered within a Shantungosaurus bonebed at the Kugou locality.
The holotype (ZCDM V0020, housed at Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum, Zhucheng, Shandong) is an incomplete left hind-limb, including a partial left thigh, shin and shank, a complete metatarsal III and two toe bones.
The genus name Anomalipes is derived from the Latin anomalus (peculiar, abnormal, not easily classified) and pes (foot), referring to the unusual shape of its foot. The specific name, zhaoi, was named in honour of Zhao Xijin.
See also
References
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Category:Maastrichtian dinosaurs
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2018
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