Liliensternus

Liliensternus lilies terni in the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart.

• Germany ( Thüringen)

• Liliensternus lilies terni

Liliensternus (formerly also Halticosaurus, the "jumping lizard" ) was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic (late Norian ) in present-day Germany. The approximately 5.15 m long Coelophysoide is estimated to weigh about 127 kg.

The robbery dinosaur was named after Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern who had opened on August 1, 1934, a museum of paleontology in the outbuildings of his castle in Bedheim, which also houses the recently discovered dinosaur finds from the same mountain in Römhild were shown. The museum was founded in 1969 dissolved the finds are now in the Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Relationship

Although its membership to the Coelophysoidea as secured, is still unclear, belongs to which family Liliensternus. In the earlier literature, is this Halticosauridae frequently used. This family is controversial. More likely, however, is that he belongs to a group of Coelophysoiden, which branched off from the family tree of the Coelophysidae and possibly stood at the starting point for the later Dilophosaurier.

Previously, in addition to the type species Liliensternus lilies terni also found in France dinosaur genus Liliensternus was counted and described as Liliensternus airelensis. According to recent studies, this type but was placed in a separate genus ( Lophostropheus ).