A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado


On Dinosaur Classification

On Scientific Names

The Basics of Taxonomy

An Introduction to Cladistcs

Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

About the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Geological
Time Chart


   

Genus Coelophysis

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Theropodia
    Order Ceratosauria
      Family Coelophysidae
C. bauri Cope, 1889
  Arizona and New Mexico

Species in Colorado: Coelophysis bauri
(Presence in Colorado inferred from footprints in Mesa County.)

Size: Where found:
Up to 10 feet
3 meters
Chinle Formation of
Arizona and New Mexico.

Period: Age:
Late Triassic Late Carnian - Early Norian
  ~225 Ma.

Material Found
Several hundred individuals of various sizes and ages. Nearly complete articulated skeletons.


Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard


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