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sharp-clawed runner
Lophostropheus
Say it like this: “LOH-fuh-STROH-fee-uhs”
Lophostropheus airelensis
Lophostropheus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Triassic · Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Triassic · Early Jurassic (Rhaetian · Hettangian) · roughly 205.7 to 199.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 2007 · Ezcurra, M. D.; Cuny, G.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6.2 m · 20 ft
- Weight
- 100–136 kg · 220–300 lb
- Found in
- France · Moon-Airel
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Coelophysoidea
The story in short
In 2007, M. D. Ezcurra and G. Cuny published the name Lophostropheus. The name means “crest vertebrae.”
It lived in the Late Triassic · Early Jurassic (Rhaetian · Hettangian), roughly 205.7 to 199.5 million years ago. Finds come from France, including the Moon-Airel Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Lophostropheus at a length near 6.2 m and a body mass around 100–136 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Coelophysoidea, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Dracoraptor
Dracoraptor hanigani
Early Jurassic (Hettangian) · roughly 201.4 to 199.5 million years ago
Panguraptor
Panguraptor lufengensis
Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
Pendraig
Pendraig milnerae
Late Triassic (Norian · Rhaetian) · roughly 227.3 to 201.4 million years ago