Cœlophysis

The cœlophysis (the Coelophysis ) was one of the first Dinosaure S hunters. He lived at the end of the Trias higher between 230 and 205 million years before our era than the New Mexico, in Arizona, with the Connecticut and in the south of the Africa. Its name means “hollow form”.

Description

It could measure up to 3 Mètre S length, 55 Centimètre S height and to weigh 80 Kilogram S. Its mouth narrow and flexible enabled him to seize small fast and swift preys. The teeth were curved backwards and the jaw was made so that the two parts can slip one on the other.

The cœlophysis most probably drove out in pack, on the same model as the wolf S at our time, which then enabled them to attack larger preys such as the Placerias , of the Reptiles mammaliens still present at this time.

History of the discovery

Remainders, some scattered fragments, were discovered in 1881 by an amateur, David Baldwin. Eight years later the species is described by Edward Drinker Cope. In 1947, not far from the New Mexico and of the place where the first remainders were discovered, of multiple bones were discovered, with Ghost Ranch. Edwin Colbert, with a team of the American museum of natural history to discover there not less than one score of whole skeletons of Coelophysis. Those were to probably be drowned because of a sudden flood. One discovered in the body of a skeleton, with the site of the stomach, a small skeleton of coelophysis. Too much large to be a fetus, the only explanation was that the coelophysis was cannibal.

Internal bonds

See List of the dinosaurs

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Simple: Coelophysis

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