Lophostropheus was an extinct genus of coelophilic theropod dinosaur that lived during the boundary of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic Periods approximately 205.6 to 196.5 million years ago. It moved through what is now Normandy, France. It was described and named by Argentine paleontologist Mart\u00edn Ezcurra and French paleontologist Gilles Cuny. The name means \"vertebra of the ridge\", derived from the Greek words \"loph\u00e8\" meaning \"ridge\" and the word \"stropheus\" meaning \"belonging to the vertebrae\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a small to medium-sized, moderately built animal that lived on the ground and could reach up to 3 m in length. It was a slender carnivorous dinosaur, covered with scales or feathers. It was a bipedal dinosaur or could walk on its two lower limbs. It had well-developed claws on its lower limbs. It probably lived in the swamps and marshes of the western part of present-day Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is estimated that Lophostropheus was between 1 and 6 m long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lophostropheus was a carnivorous dinosaur that probably hunted small animals.
The name means \"vertebrae of the ridge\" derived from the Greek words \"loph\u00e8\" meaning \"ridge\" and the word \"stropheus\" meaning \"pertaining to the vertebrae\".
Lophostropheus was an extinct genus of coellophoid theropod dinosaur that lived during the boundary of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic Periods approximately 205.6 to 196.5 million years ago.