Outline: a typical theropod
Lophostropheus
LOH-fo-STROH-fee-us
Type species Lophostropheus airelensis
- Lived
- 206 to 200 million years ago, Late Triassic to Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 6.2 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- France
- Named by
- Ezcurra and Cuny 2007
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical theropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
200 million years ago
Field notes
About Lophostropheus
What it was like
Lophostropheus was a slender, two-legged meat eater related to Coelophysis. It is known from part of the backbone and hips.
Its world
It lived around the time the Triassic ended and the Jurassic began, in what is now France. It is one of few theropods known from right around that boundary, when many animals died out.
How it was found
Ezcurra and Cuny named Lophostropheus in 2007. The type species is Lophostropheus airelensis. Its bones had first been placed in another genus.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelophysoidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. D. Ezcurra and G. Cuny. 2007. The coelophysoid Lophostropheus airelensis, gen. nov.: a review of the systematics of "Liliensternus" airelensis from the Triassic-Jurassic outcrops of Normandy (France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):73-86