Genus
Valid Extinct

Lepidus

Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman general and statesman who formed the Second Triumvirate alongside Octavian and Mark Antony during the final years of the Roman Republic. Lepidus had previously been a close ally of Julius Caesar. He was also the last pontifex maximus before the Roman Empire, and (presumably) the last interrex and magister equitum to hold military command.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Lepidus
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Lepidus and Octavian. Spring-summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.87 g, 8h). Military mint traveling with Lepidus in Italy. Bare head of Lepidus right / Bare head of Octavian right. Crawford 495/2a; CRI 140; Sydenham 1323; RSC 2a. Good VF, toned. Exceptional portrait of Lepidus. This issue was struck by Lepidus to commemorate the foundation of the Second Triumvirate, and was probably struck from the proceeds of the proscriptions in preparation for the campaign against Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC. Lepidus is shown with the title Pontifus Maximus, an office which he received after the assassination of Julius Caesar and held until his death in 12 BC. © CNG · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Coelophysoidea Superfamily
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Coelophysidae Family
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Coelophysinae Subfamily
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Lepidus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Lepidus praecisio 227 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015. The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):513-526 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015. The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):513-526 DOI ↗