Elopteryx

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Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Coelurosauria
Family:  ?Troodontidae
Genus: Elopteryx
Species: E. nopcsai
Binomial name
Elopteryx nopcsai
Andrews, 1913

Elopteryx ("small wing") was a theropod dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Romania. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period and may have been a troodontid. The type species, Elopteryx nopcsai, is nomen dubium. It was described by Andrews in 1913.

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