Pterospondylus

Taxobox
name = "Pterospondylus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
superfamilia = Coelophysoidea
familia = uncertain
genus = "Pterospondylus"
genus_authority= Jaekel, 1913-14
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"P. trielbae" Jaekel, 1913-14 (type)

"Pterospondylus" (meaning "winged vertebra") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a coelophysoid theropod which lived in what is now Germany. The type species, "Pterospondylus trielbae", was described by Jaekel in 1913-14 for a single back vertebra.Jaekel, O. (1913-14). Über die Wirbeltierefunde in der oberen Trias von Halberstadt. "Paläontologische Zeitschrift" 1:155-215.] Sometimes, it is aligned with "Procompsognathus",von Huene, F. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihte Entwicklung und Geschichte. "Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie" 1(4). 361 p. [German] ] or even considered to be synonymous with it,Steel, R. (1970). Part 14. Saurischia. "Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie". Gustav Fischer Verlag:Stuttgart, 1-87.] despite being based on a vertebra that is twice the size of the corresponding bone in "Procompsognathus".Ostrom, J.H. (1981). "Procompsognathus" — theropod or thecodont? "Palaeontographica" Abstract A, 175(4-6):179-195.]

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External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a927be.htm "Pterospondylus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair