Lophostropheus
Sign in to saveLophostropheus ( ) is an extinct genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 205.6 to 196.5 million years ago during the boundary between the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period, in what is now Normandy, France. Lophostropheus is one of the few dinosaurs that may have survived the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.
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It is catalogued under topics including Coelophysoidea, Dinosaur genera and Dinosaurs of France.
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Saurischia
- Length
- 6.2
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- taxon name
- Lophostropheus
- taxon rank
- genus
- different from
- Lostprophets
- time period
- Early Jurassic
- location of discovery
- France
- main food source
- carnivore
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Classification
- Distinguishing anatomical features
- History of discovery
- Paleobiology
- Paleoecology
- References
Lophostropheus ( ) is an extinct genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 205.6 to 196.5 million years ago during the boundary between the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period, in what is now Normandy, France. Lophostropheus is one of the few dinosaurs that may have survived the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.
Lophostropheus was a small to medium-sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that could grow up to long. Over the years it had been incorrectly classified as Halticosaurus and Liliensternus, but was later recognized as a new genus and was reassigned to Lophostropheus in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lophostropheus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.