Superfamille

Valide Éteint

Coelophysoidea

coelophysoid

Holtz 1994

Les Coelophysoidea forment une super-famille de dinosaures théropodes qui ont vécu au Trias supérieur et au Jurassique inférieur.

Plage temporelle

Trias

Jurassique

Crétacé

Paléogène

Néogène

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Occurrences PBDB

Groupe

Dinosaures

Carnivore Vivant au sol, solitaire Terrestre

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Coelophysis bauri (Cope, 1887) theropod dinosaur from the Triassic of New Mexico, USA. This is a remarkable complete skeleton of the small early theropod Coelophysis. It comes from a nearly monospecific concentration of numerous complete to disarticulated skeletons in reddish-colored fluvial siltstones, often called a "Coelophysis graveyard". This occurrence has been interpreted as a carcass-jammed channel filling following mass mortality of dinosaurs by regional drought (see Schwartz & Gillette, 1994). Stratigraphy: Rock Point Member, Chinle Formation, Upper Triassic Locality: Whitaker Quarry (Coelophysis Quarry), Ghost Ranch, Rio Arriba County, northern New Mexico, USA Some info. from: Hunt, A.P. & S.G. Lucas. 1991. Rioarribasaurus, a new name for a Late Triassic dinosaur from New Mexico (USA). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 65: 191-198. Schwartz, H.L. & D.D. Gillette. 1994. Geology and taphonomy of the Coelophysis Quarry, Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 68: 1118-1130. Theropod were small to large, bipedal dinosaurs. Almost all known members of the group were carnivorous (predators and/or scavengers). They represent the ancestral group to the birds, and some theropods are known to have had feathers. Some of the most well known dinosaurs to the general public are theropods, such as Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Spinosaurus. © James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Clade non classé

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Theropoda Clade non classé

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Neotheropoda Clade non classé

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Coelophysoidea Superfamille

Sites de découverte 80 sites géolocalisés

Répartition

Principaux pays

🇺🇸 États-Unis

🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni

🇨🇳 Chine

🇿🇦 Afrique du Sud

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

🇩🇪 Allemagne

🇦🇷 Argentine

🇵🇱 Pologne

🇬🇱 Groenland

🇫🇷 France

Formations géologiques

Chinle

Petrified Forest

Kayenta

Elliot

Forest Sandstone

Lufeng

Tecovas

Bull Canyon

Löwenstein

Moenave

Distribution temporelle

Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)

Callovien (165.3–161.5 Ma)

Toarcien (184.2–174.7 Ma)

Pliensbachien (192.9–184.2 Ma)

Sinémurien (199.5–192.9 Ma)

Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)

Rhétien (205.7–201.4 Ma)

Norien (227.3–205.7 Ma)

Carnien (237–227.3 Ma)

Synonymes (5)

Dolichosuchus cristatus nomen dubium, species not entered Coelophysoidea

Halticosauridae invalid subgroup of Coelophysoidea

Longosaurus nomen dubium Coelophysoidea

Podokesauridae invalid subgroup of Coelophysoidea

Procompsognathidae invalid subgroup of Coelophysoidea

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Bibliographie

Description originale

T. R. Holtz. 1994. The phylogenetic position of the Tyrannosauridae: implications for theropod systematics. Journal of Paleontology 68(5):1100-1117 DOI ↗

Bibliographie (59)

A. D. Marsh. 2025. A large silesaurid specimen from Petrified Forest National Park, U.S.A., with comments on large body sizes in latest Triassic ornithodirans. Lithodendron: The Science and History Journal of Petrified Forest National Park 2(1):1–15 DOI ↗

M. D. Ezcurra, D. Marke, and S. A. Walsh, S. L. Brusatte. 2023. A revision of the ‘coelophysoid-grade’ theropod specimen from the Lower Jurassic of the Isle of Skye (Scotland). Scottish Journal of Geology 59(1-2) DOI ↗

M. T. Carrano. 2021. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, Texas Memorial Museum / Texas Science & Natural History Museum

S. N. F. Spiekman, M. D. Ezcurra, and R. J. Butler, N. C. Fraser, S. C. R. Maidment. 2021. Pendraig milnerae, a new small-sized coelophysoid theropod from the Late Triassic of Wales. Royal Society Open Science 8:210915 DOI ↗

B. T. Breeden and T. B. Rowe. 2020. New specimens of Scutellosaurus lawleri Colbert,1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona elucidate the early evolution of thyreophoran dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(4):e1791894:1-32 DOI ↗

A. D. Marsh and T. B. Rowe. 2020. A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 94(Memoir 78):1-103 DOI ↗

A. D. Marsh and W. G. Parker. 2020. New dinosauromorph specimens from Petrified Forest National Park and a global biostratigraphic review of Triassic dinosauromorph body fossils. PaleoBios 37 DOI ↗

G. Niedzwiedzki and T. Sulej. 2020. Theropod dinosaur fossils from the Gipsdalen and Fleming Fjord formations (Carnian-Norian, Upper Triassic), East Greenland. The 34th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting. Abstracts and Proceedings 1:151

M. D. Ezcurra. 2017. A new early coelophysoid neotheropod from the Late Triassic of northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(5):506-538 DOI ↗

R. N. Martinez and C. Apaldetti. 2017. A late Norian–Rhaetian coelophysid neotheropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(5):448-505 DOI ↗

B. B. Britt, D. J. Chure, and G. F. Engelmann, J. D. Shumway. 2016. Rise of the erg—paleontology and paleoenvironments of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in northeastern Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 3:1-32 DOI ↗

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S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015. The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):513-526 DOI ↗

H.-L. You, Y. Azuma, and T. Wang, Y.-M. Wang, Z.-M. Dong. 2014. The first well-preserved coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from Asia. Zootaxa 3873(3):233-249 DOI ↗

K. M. Loughney, D. E. Fastovsky, and W. G. Parker. 2011. Vertebrate fossil preservation in blue paleosols from the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, with implications for vertebrate biostratigraphy in the Chinle Formation. Palaios 26(11):700-718 DOI ↗

A. M. Yates, M. F. Bonnan, and J. Neveling, A. Chinsamy, M. G. Blackbeard. 2010. A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism. Proceedings of The Royal Society B 277(1682):787-794 DOI ↗

J. Dzik, T. Sulej, and G. Niedzwiedzki. 2008. A dicynodont-theropod association in the latest Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):733-738 DOI ↗

S. J. Nesbitt and M. R. Stocker. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of the Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry (northern New Mexico, USA), and the importance of apomorphy-based assemblage comparisons. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1063-1072 DOI ↗

R. B. Irmis, S. J. Nesbitt, and K. Padian, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, D. T. Woody, A. Downs. 2007. A Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs. Science 317:358-361 DOI ↗

S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, and W. G. Parker. 2007. A critical re-evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2):209-243 DOI ↗

J. A. Spielmann, S. G. Lucas, and A. B. Heckert. 2007. Tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic (Revueltian) Owl Rock Formation, Chinle Group, Arizona. The Global Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 41:371-383

A. R. C. Milner and M. G. Lockley. 2006. History, geology and paleontology: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, Utah. Making Tracks Across the Southwest: The 2006 Desert Symposium

R. C. Munter and J. M. Clark. 2006. Theropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Huizachal Canyon, Mexico. Amniote paleobiology: perspectives on the evolution of mammals, birds, and reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

M. T. Carrano. 2005. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, University of California Museum of Paleontology

T. M. Lehman and S. Chatterjee. 2005. Depositional setting and vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Journal of Earth Systems Science 114(3):325-351 DOI ↗

W. Parker and R. B. Irmis. 2005. Advances in Late Triassic vertebrate paleontology based on new material from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29:45-58

M. T. Carrano and S. D. Sampson. 2004. A review of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Europe, with comments on the late history of the Coelophysoidea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2004(9):537-558 DOI ↗

R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18

M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2003. Theropods (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Middle Jurassic Toutunhe Formation of the southern Junggar Basin, NW China. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77(2):281-292 DOI ↗

M. J. Polcyn, D. A. Winkler, and L. L. Jacobs, K. Newman. 2002. Fossil occurrences and structural disturbance in the Triassic Chinle Formation at North Stinking Springs Mountain near St. Johns, Arizona. Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:43-49

S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2001. Theropod dinosaurs and the Early Jurassic age of the Moenave Formation, Arizona-Utah, USA. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2001(7):435-448 DOI ↗

D. Munyikwa and M. A. Raath. 1999. Further material of the ceratosaurian dinosaur Syntarsus from the Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic) of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 35:55-59

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K. Carpenter. 1997. A giant coelophysoid (Ceratosauria) theropod from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico, USA. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 205(2):189-208 DOI ↗

R. M. Sullivan, S.G. Lucas, and A. Heckert, AP Hunt. 1996. The type locality of Coelophysis, a Late Triassic dinosaur from north-central New Mexico (USA). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70(1/2):245-255 DOI ↗

G. Cuny and P. M. Galton. 1993. Revision of the Airel theropod dinosaur from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (Normany, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 187(3):261-288 DOI ↗

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R. F. Dubiel, S. C. Good, and J. M. Parrish. 1989. Sedimentology and paleontology of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Bedrock, Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 26(4):113-126

T. Rowe. 1989. A new species of the theropod dinosaur <i>Syntarsus</i> from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):125-136 DOI ↗

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