Liliensternus

Taxobox
name = "Liliensternus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic

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image_width=300px
image_caption = "Liliensternus liliensterni"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
superfamilia = Coelophysoidea
familia =
genus = "Liliensternus"
binomial = "Liliensternus liliensterni"
binomial_authority = Welles, 1984

"Liliensternus" was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, between about 215-200 mya. "Liliensternus" was originally found in 1934 in Germany and was named after the German scientist, Dr. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern. "Liliensternus" was around 6 meters long and may have preyed on herbivores like "Plateosaurus". It probably weighed around 400 kilograms.

The type species is "Liliensternus liliensterni". A second species, "Liliensternus airelensis", which had an extra pair of cervical pleurocoels, is now considered a separate genus, "Lophostropheus".

In Popular Culture

Lilliensternus was featured in Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience, but it was not featured in the television series.

References

* Ezcurra, M.D, and Cuny, G. (2007). "The coelophysoid "Lophostropheus airelensis", gen. nov.: a review of the systematics of "Liliensternus" "airelensis" from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary outcrops of Normandy (France)." "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology", 27(1): 73-86.

External links

* [http://dml.cmnh.org/2001May/msg00024.html "Liliensternus" on the Dinosaur Mailing List]