Avipes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Triassic, {{fossilrange|240|earliest=242|latest=235}}

| image = Avipes.jpg

| image_caption = Foot

| taxon = Avipes

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| type_species = {{extinct}}Avipes dillstedtianus

| type_species_authority = Huene, 1932

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Avipes (meaning "bird foot") is a genus of extinct archosaurs represented by the single species Avipes dillstedtianus, which lived during the middle Triassic period. The only known fossil specimen, a partial foot (metatarsals), was found in Bedheim, Thuringia, Germany, in deposits of Lettenkohlensandstein (a form of sandstone). Avipes was named in 1932 by Huene. Although originally classified as a coelurosaur or a ceratosaur, a new study of the fossil specimen found that it was too incomplete to assign to a group more specific than Archosauria, and so it was regarded as indeterminate by Rauhut and Hungerbuhler in 2000.Rauhut, O. W., and Hungerbühler, A. (2000). "[http://www.arca.museus.ul.pt/ArcaSite/obj/gaia/MNHNL-0000772-MG-DOC-web.PDF A review of European Triassic theropods]." Gaia, 15: 75-88.