Erectopus
Erectopus (meaning "upright foot") is an extinct genus of basal allosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous La Penthiève Beds Formation of France and also possibly the Cernavodă Formation of southern Romania. The type species is E. superbus, which was initially known as a species of Megalosaurus.
| Erectopus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Elements of the holotype specimen (not to scale of each other) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Infraorder: | †Carnosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Allosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Erectopus von Huene, 1923 |
| Species: | †E. superbus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Erectopus superbus (Sauvage, 1882) [originally Megalosaurus] | |
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