Genus
Valid Extinct

Procompsognathus

before elegant jaw
Fraas 1913

Procompsognathus is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 210 million years ago during the later part of the Triassic Period, in what is now Germany. Procompsognathus was a small-sized, lightly built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that could grow up to 1 m (3.3 ft) long.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Procompsognathus
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Holotype fossil specimen SMNS 12591 of Procompsognathus © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Coelophysoidea Superfamily
Coelophysidae Family
Procompsognathus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
1
Geological formations
Löwenstein
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Hallopus celerrimus objective synonym of Procompsognathus triassicus 215 Ma
Procompsognathus triassicus 215 Ma
Images 1