CoelophysisName Means: Hollow form
Length: 9 feet (1.2 meters)
Weight: Around 100 pounds (45.5 Kg)
Diet: Carnivore
When: Late Triassic
Where: New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah
Prey: Small mammals, lizards, Dinosaurs, and Insects
Basic Info: Coelophysis was first named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1889 during the famous "Bone Wars" era against his competition Othniel Charles Marsh. An amateur fossil collector named David Baldwin found the first specimen of the creature in 1881 on a New Mexico ranch. Coelophysis are proven cannibals. Some skeletons were found of it with baby Coelophysis in it's stomach. A graveyard of Coelophysis were found at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico in 1947, possibly swept away by a flash flood.
Trivia: Coelophysis was the second fossil to be taken into space (Miasaura was the first).
Coelophysis is the state fossil of New Mexico.
2 comments:
hey jpfreak,
Glad you're back. Where do you collect your information? You always post interesting dinosaurs.
Looking forward to your Christmas posts.
I always just think of a dinosaur to post and then look on wikepedia to find info, or use books from school.
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