Procompsognathus Temporal range: Norian
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Holotype specimen (SMNS 12591) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Coelophysidae |
Genus: | †Procompsognathus Fraas, 1913 |
Species: | †P. triassicus
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Binomial name | |
†Procompsognathus triassicus Fraas, 1913
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Procompsognathus /ˌproʊkɒmpˈsɒɡnəθəs/ 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.