Protoavis
Field photograph to come
Protoavis
DV-0343 · type species Protoavis texensis
- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Chatterjee 1991
Field notes
About Protoavis
Protoavis was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Protoavis, from Texas. Its fossils come from the Cooper Canyon Formation. It was named by Chatterjee in 1991.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
220 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Theropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Chatterjee. 1991. Cranial anatomy and relationships of a new Triassic bird from Texas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 332:277-342