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sharp-clawed runner · Doubtful name
Tanystrosuchus
Tanystrosuchus posthumus
Tanystrosuchus ate meat and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Late Triassic. Bones have been found in Germany.
- When
- Late Triassic (Norian) · roughly 227.3 to 205.7 million years ago
- Named in
- 1963 · Kuhn, O.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Germany · Löwenstein
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Not recorded
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Theropoda
The story in short
In 1963, O. Kuhn published the name Tanystrosuchus.
It lived in the Late Triassic (Norian), roughly 227.3 to 205.7 million years ago. Finds come from Germany, including the Löwenstein Formation. It was a carnivore. A habitual gait is not settled.
The fossils of Tanystrosuchus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Theropoda, among the theropod dinosaurs.