A genus of small dinosaur from the Triassic period known for its distinctive foot structure.
From Greek 'hallo-' (other/different) and 'pous' (foot), literally meaning 'different-footed,' a scientific name chosen to highlight its unusual foot anatomy.
Hallopus is one of those dinosaurs that's so poorly known that scientists keep changing what they think it is—it exists mostly as scattered footbones, which is humbling given how complete we thought the fossil record was.
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