Notatesseraeraptor frickensis Notatesseraeraptor

Notatesseraeraptor (“feature mosaic tile thief”; from the Latin “nota”, feature; “tesserae”, tiles used to make a mosaic, in reference to the mixture of features normally found on dilophosaurids and coelophysoids; and “raptor”, thief) is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic of what is now Switzerland. It was found in the Gruhalde Member of the Klettgau Formation. It was an early member of Neotheropoda with affinities to Dilophosaurus and Averostra. The new genus and species Notatesseraeraptor frickensis was named by Marion Zahner and colleagues in 2019.

left|thumb|Life restoration Since 1961, at the clay pit of Gruhalde, exploited by Tonwerke Keller, numerous fossils of Plateosaurus have been found. At a somewhat higher layer, in the spring of 2006, amateur paleontologist Michael Fisher discovered the postcranial skeleton of a small theropod.