Saltopus was not much bigger than a rabbit and it was discovered in Scotland. It lived in the late Triassic (215-207mya) Period. Probably the size of a small cat, with hollow bones like those of a bird, and (based on related forms) probably had five-fingered hands and a long head with dozens of sharp teeth. None of this can be known for certain, as Saltopus' fossils are few (mostly hind limb fragments).
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| - Dieses Tier war bis zu 60cm lang und wog bis zu einem Kilogramm. Es war schlank, flink und ernährte sich von Insekten. Saltopus lebte vor 200 Millionen Jahren.
- Saltopus was not much bigger than a rabbit and it was discovered in Scotland. It lived in the late Triassic (215-207mya) Period. Probably the size of a small cat, with hollow bones like those of a bird, and (based on related forms) probably had five-fingered hands and a long head with dozens of sharp teeth. None of this can be known for certain, as Saltopus' fossils are few (mostly hind limb fragments).
- Saltopus elginensis is known only from a single partial skeleton lacking the skull but including parts of the vertebral column, the forelimbs, the pelvis and the hindlimbs. These have been mainly preserved as impressions or natural casts in the sandstone; very little bone material is present.[1] It was about the size of a domestic cat, and would have been roughly 80–100 centimetres (31–39 in) long.[2] It had hollow bones like those of birds and other dinosaurs. It may have weighed around 1 kilogram (2.2 lb). Most of the length was accounted for by the tail. It had five-fingered hands, with the fourth and fifth finger reduced in size. Contrary to the original description, in 2011 it was established that the sacrum (hip vertebrae) as made up of two vertebrae, the primitive ancestral conditio
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| - Dieses Tier war bis zu 60cm lang und wog bis zu einem Kilogramm. Es war schlank, flink und ernährte sich von Insekten. Saltopus lebte vor 200 Millionen Jahren.
- Saltopus elginensis is known only from a single partial skeleton lacking the skull but including parts of the vertebral column, the forelimbs, the pelvis and the hindlimbs. These have been mainly preserved as impressions or natural casts in the sandstone; very little bone material is present.[1] It was about the size of a domestic cat, and would have been roughly 80–100 centimetres (31–39 in) long.[2] It had hollow bones like those of birds and other dinosaurs. It may have weighed around 1 kilogram (2.2 lb). Most of the length was accounted for by the tail. It had five-fingered hands, with the fourth and fifth finger reduced in size. Contrary to the original description, in 2011 it was established that the sacrum (hip vertebrae) as made up of two vertebrae, the primitive ancestral condition, not four.
- Saltopus was not much bigger than a rabbit and it was discovered in Scotland. It lived in the late Triassic (215-207mya) Period. Probably the size of a small cat, with hollow bones like those of a bird, and (based on related forms) probably had five-fingered hands and a long head with dozens of sharp teeth. None of this can be known for certain, as Saltopus' fossils are few (mostly hind limb fragments).
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