Erectopus

Erectopus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
Elements of the holotype specimen (not to scale of each other)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: †Carnosauria
Superfamily: †Allosauroidea
Genus: †Erectopus
von Huene, 1922
Species:
†E. superbus
Binomial name
†Erectopus superbus
(Sauvage, 1882) [originally Megalosaurus]
Synonyms
  • Megalosaurus superbus Sauvage, 1882
  • Erectopus sauvagi Huene, 1932

Erectopus (meaning "upright foot") is an extinct genus of basal allosauroid theropod from the Lower 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.