Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Procompsognathinae

Nopcsa 1923

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
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Procompsognathinae
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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
Procompsognathinae Subfamily
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Bibliography
Original description
B. F. Nopcsa. 1923. Die Familien der Reptilien [The families of reptiles]. Forschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie. Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin 2:1-210