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Saltopus
''Saltopus'' ("hopping foot") is a genus of very small bipedal dinosauriforms containing the single species ''S. elginensis'' from the late Triassic period of Scotland.
==Description==
''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.〔Huene, F.R. von (1910). "Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin." ''Geol. Pal. Abh. n. s.'', 8: 315-322.〕 It was about the size of a domestic cat, and would have been roughly long.〔 It had hollow bones like those of birds and other dinosaurs. It may have weighed around . 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.〔
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