Genus
Valid Extinct

Lophostropheus

Ezcurra and Cuny 2007

Lophostropheus is an extinct genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 205.6 to 196.5 million years ago during the boundary between the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period, in what is now Normandy, France. Lophostropheus is one of the few dinosaurs that may have survived the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Coelophysoidea Superfamily
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Lophostropheus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇫🇷 France
1
Geological formations
Moon-Airel
1
Temporal distribution
Rhaetian (205.7–201.4 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Lophostropheus airelensis 206 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
M. D. Ezcurra and G. Cuny. 2007. The coelophysoid Lophostropheus airelensis, gen. nov.: a review of the systematics of "Liliensternus" airelensis from the Triassic-Jurassic outcrops of Normandy (France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):73-86 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
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 ↗