Anticheiropus pilulatus

†Anticheiropus pilulatus is a dinosaur ichnospecies (manus tracks only) from the Early Jurassic of Connecticut, United States, attributed to a small quadrupedal dinosaur leaving rounded hand impressions. Found in redbeds of the Hartford Basin, these tracks illustrate the diversity of Early Jurassic dinosaur locomotor patterns and likely represent a prosauropod or ornithischian trackmaker.

Time Period

Jurassic Early Mesozoic Era

Anticheiropus pilulatus lived during the Jurassic Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 201,4 to 174,7 million years ago.

After the Triassic-Jurassic extinction, dinosaurs rapidly diversified and became the dominant land vertebrates. Early sauropods and theropods began to evolve larger body sizes.