Dino LessonCoelophysis is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic of what is now the southwestern United States. It is one of the earliest known dinosaur genera. It was a small, slenderly-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore that measured up to 3 m in length. Its weight is estimated between 15 and 25 kg. Despite being an early dinosaur, the evolution of the theropod body form had already advanced greatly compared to its contempories. In 1947, a substantial 'graveyard' of Coelophysis fossils was found in New Mexico. These specimens were numerous, including many well-preserved and fully articulated specimens.
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