Lophostropheus airelensis lohfuh-STROHFIːUHS
"crest"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lophostropheus 3 m (9.8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (205.6–196.5 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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 3 m 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.
What we know
- Named by (Cuny & Galton, 1993).
- Body length estimated at about 3 m.
- Fossils found in France.