Liliensternus

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Liliensternus
Liliensternus liliensterni in the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart.

Liliensternus liliensterni in the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart .

Temporal occurrence
Upper Triassic (late Norium )
214 to 208.5 million years
Locations
Systematics
Dinosaur (dinosauria)
Lizard dinosaur (Saurischia)
Theropoda
Neotheropoda
Coelophysoidea
Liliensternus
Scientific name
Liliensternus
Welles , 1984
Art
  • Liliensternus liliensterni

Liliensternus (formerly Halticosaurus , the "jumping lizard") was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur that lived in the Upper Triassic (late Norium ) in what is now Germany. The approximately 5.15 m long Coelophysoid is estimated to weigh about 127 kg.

The predatory dinosaur was named after Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern , who opened a palaeontological museum in the outbuildings of his castle in Bedheim on August 1, 1934 , in which the recently discovered dinosaur finds from Gleichberg near Römhild were shown. The museum was closed in 1969, the finds are now in the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) .

relationship

Life reconstruction of Liliensternus

Although its membership of the Coelophysoidea is considered to be certain, it is still unclear to which family Liliensternus belongs. In the older literature the Halticosauridae is often used for this. However, this family is controversial. It is much more likely, however, that it belongs to a group of Coelophysoids, which branched off from the family tree of the Coelophysidae and possibly stood at the starting point for the later dilophosaurs .

In the past, in addition to the type species Liliensternus liliensterni , a dinosaur found in France was also included in the genus Liliensternus and described as Liliensternus airelensis . According to recent studies, this species was placed in its own genus ( Lophostropheus ).

literature

  • Martin D. Ezcurra, Gilles Cuny: The coelophysoid Lophostropheus airelensis, gen. Nov .: a review of the systematics of "Liliensternus" airelensis from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary outcrops of Normandy (France). In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 27, No. 1, 2007, ISSN  0272-4634 , pp. 73-86, doi : 10.1671 / 0272-4634 (2007) 27 [73: TCLAGN] 2.0.CO; 2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregory S. Paul : The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 74, online .
  2. ^ Gregory S. Paul: Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. A complete illustrated guide. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 1988, ISBN 0-671-61946-2 , p. 267.
  3. Thomas R. Holtz Jr .: Winter 2011 Appendix. 2012. to: Thomas R. Holtz Jr .: Dinosaurs. The most complete, up-to-date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of all Ages. Random House, New York NY 2007, ISBN 978-0-375-82419-7 (PDF; 704 kB).

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