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genus · 1 represented species

Coelophysis

Coelophysis is a dinosaur genus represented here by Coelophysis bauri.

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Coelophysis

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Representative silhouette for Coelophysis
1Direct child groups
1Countries represented
216–203 MaDataset range

Branch structure

Direct branches in this dataset

species

Coelophysis bauri

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Side-view life reconstruction of the slender theropod Coelophysis bauriArt by TotalDino · CC BY-SA 4.0

Triassic

Coelophysis bauri

A lightly built Late Triassic predator known from hundreds of skeletons at Ghost Ranch. Its famous fossils stabilized a difficult species name—and disproved a textbook story about dinosaur cannibalism.

carnivore~2.7 m

Distribution

Geographic record

United States

Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.

Sources

Further reading

Introduction to the DinosauriaDinosaur Paleobiology