Lophostropheus

DV-0633 · 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

Field notes

About Lophostropheus

Lophostropheus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, 206 to 200 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Lophostropheus, from France. Its fossils come from the Moon-Airel Formation. It was named by Ezcurra and Cuny in 2007.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

200 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Lophostropheus?

Lophostropheus: about 6.2 m (20 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical theropod shape

Close relatives

Other members of Coelophysoidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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