Lophostropheus airelensis lohfuh-STROHFIːUHS
"crest"
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (205.6–196.5 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lophostropheus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.