Avipes

Avipes Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 240 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Foot
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Genus:	†Avipes
Type species
†Avipes dillstedtianus Huene, 1932

Avipes (meaning "bird foot") is a genus of extinct archosaurians 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.