Paleo Fact!
Camposaurus (Camp's Lizard) is a coelophysid from Late Triassic North America! It's widely considered to be the oldest known neotheropod! Neotheropoda is the group of theropods that consists of coelophysoids and all theropods that - (1/2)
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Camposaurus (Camp's Lizard) is a coelophysid from Late Triassic North America! It's widely considered to be the oldest known neotheropod! Neotheropoda is the group of theropods that consists of coelophysoids and all theropods that - (1/2)
Art by Stavrosillustration!
October 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Paleo Fact!
Camposaurus (Camp's Lizard) is a coelophysid from Late Triassic North America! It's widely considered to be the oldest known neotheropod! Neotheropoda is the group of theropods that consists of coelophysoids and all theropods that - (1/2)
Art by Stavrosillustration!
Camposaurus (Camp's Lizard) is a coelophysid from Late Triassic North America! It's widely considered to be the oldest known neotheropod! Neotheropoda is the group of theropods that consists of coelophysoids and all theropods that - (1/2)
Art by Stavrosillustration!
-just has a tooth to work with, it's an indeterminate neotheropod for now! A 2020 paper compared it to Acrocanthosaurus and suggested that it was a basal carcharodontosaurid, but any classification is rather flimsy until more fossil material is found! (2/2)
Art by Teratophoneus!
Art by Teratophoneus!
June 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
-just has a tooth to work with, it's an indeterminate neotheropod for now! A 2020 paper compared it to Acrocanthosaurus and suggested that it was a basal carcharodontosaurid, but any classification is rather flimsy until more fossil material is found! (2/2)
Art by Teratophoneus!
Art by Teratophoneus!
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution
Abstract. Averostra (= Ceratosauria + Tetanurae) is a crucial clade that includes nearly all theropods from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) to the Late Creta
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May 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
May 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Prestosuchus & other loricatans, such as #Postosuchus, were the dominant large, apex carnivores through most of the Triassic. Their dominance of the terrestrial carnivore guild only began to wane in the latest Triassic, with #herrerasaur & #neotheropod dinosaurs emerging as new apex predators.
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May 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Prestosuchus & other loricatans, such as #Postosuchus, were the dominant large, apex carnivores through most of the Triassic. Their dominance of the terrestrial carnivore guild only began to wane in the latest Triassic, with #herrerasaur & #neotheropod dinosaurs emerging as new apex predators.
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Baldur’s Gate 3, you know I love you, and you know how much I appreciate that Druids can transform into a large bodied basal neotheropod, but to saddle it with this made up Jurassic Park horseshit is heartbreaking
February 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Baldur’s Gate 3, you know I love you, and you know how much I appreciate that Druids can transform into a large bodied basal neotheropod, but to saddle it with this made up Jurassic Park horseshit is heartbreaking
Compsognaths and Coelophysoids are quite different animals even at equal lenghts; an early neotheropod doesn't look like a clear tetanurean, not even in terms of proportions.
June 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Compsognaths and Coelophysoids are quite different animals even at equal lenghts; an early neotheropod doesn't look like a clear tetanurean, not even in terms of proportions.
New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China
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Art by TheAmazingSpino
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Art by TheAmazingSpino
May 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China
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Art by TheAmazingSpino
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Art by TheAmazingSpino
Prep work for #paleoart of Dracoraptor, a Jurassic neotheropod(?) from Wales. The original "cute" skull reconstruction is strange, bearing little resemblance to any close relatives. I see no reason it shouldn't have a much more conventional L. Trassic/E. Jurassic theropod cranium. #dinosaurs
May 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Prep work for #paleoart of Dracoraptor, a Jurassic neotheropod(?) from Wales. The original "cute" skull reconstruction is strange, bearing little resemblance to any close relatives. I see no reason it shouldn't have a much more conventional L. Trassic/E. Jurassic theropod cranium. #dinosaurs
Daily Paleo ; Notatesseraeraptor frickensis
From Late Triassic Klettgau Formation, Switzerland, "feature mosaic seizer" is a 3 meter neotheropod with a mix of dilophosaurid and coelophysid features, after which it's named. It's the first Mesozoic theropod found in its country
Art by Hummingyogurt
From Late Triassic Klettgau Formation, Switzerland, "feature mosaic seizer" is a 3 meter neotheropod with a mix of dilophosaurid and coelophysid features, after which it's named. It's the first Mesozoic theropod found in its country
Art by Hummingyogurt
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Daily Paleo ; Notatesseraeraptor frickensis
From Late Triassic Klettgau Formation, Switzerland, "feature mosaic seizer" is a 3 meter neotheropod with a mix of dilophosaurid and coelophysid features, after which it's named. It's the first Mesozoic theropod found in its country
Art by Hummingyogurt
From Late Triassic Klettgau Formation, Switzerland, "feature mosaic seizer" is a 3 meter neotheropod with a mix of dilophosaurid and coelophysid features, after which it's named. It's the first Mesozoic theropod found in its country
Art by Hummingyogurt
Kirmse - Largest Triassic Neotheropod
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November 1, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Kirmse - Largest Triassic Neotheropod
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might be worth noting that (although it was originally described as a Coelophysoid) in several recent analyses including my preliminary analysis it is an Averostran-line Neotheropod and not a Coelophysoid. Fantastic art tho :)
July 9, 2023 at 8:47 PM
might be worth noting that (although it was originally described as a Coelophysoid) in several recent analyses including my preliminary analysis it is an Averostran-line Neotheropod and not a Coelophysoid. Fantastic art tho :)
Um novo espécime de neoterópode não averrostro do Jurássico Inicial do sudoeste da China e suas implicações para a evolução dos terópodes primitivos academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution
Abstract. Averostra (= Ceratosauria + Tetanurae) is a crucial clade that includes nearly all theropods from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) to the Late Creta
academic.oup.com
May 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Um novo espécime de neoterópode não averrostro do Jurássico Inicial do sudoeste da China e suas implicações para a evolução dos terópodes primitivos academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Novo material de um dinossauro neoterópode não averrostro da Formação Lufeng do Jurássico Inferior de Yunnan, sudoeste da China doi.org/10.1093/zool...
New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China
Abstract. Neotheropoda is the core clade of predatory dinosaurs that originated in the Triassic and became highly diversified and globally distributed by t
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May 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Novo material de um dinossauro neoterópode não averrostro da Formação Lufeng do Jurássico Inferior de Yunnan, sudoeste da China doi.org/10.1093/zool...
Skeletal diagram of an indeterminate neotheropod from the Jurassic of Brazil. www.deviantart.com/paleogalli/a...
April 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Skeletal diagram of an indeterminate neotheropod from the Jurassic of Brazil. www.deviantart.com/paleogalli/a...
Skeletal diagram of an indeterminate neotheropod from the Triassic of Brazil. www.deviantart.com/paleogalli/a...
January 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Skeletal diagram of an indeterminate neotheropod from the Triassic of Brazil. www.deviantart.com/paleogalli/a...
Skeletal diagram of Tachiraptor admirabilis, a neotheropod from the Jurassic of Venezuela. Símon Bolívar for scale is ~1.65 m tall.
September 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Skeletal diagram of Tachiraptor admirabilis, a neotheropod from the Jurassic of Venezuela. Símon Bolívar for scale is ~1.65 m tall.
wang et al. describe a new non-averostran neotheropod from early jurassic china - although the animal is known from relatively complete postcrania, they choose not to name it. they do, however, name a new clade; averostriformes
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May 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
wang et al. describe a new non-averostran neotheropod from early jurassic china - although the animal is known from relatively complete postcrania, they choose not to name it. they do, however, name a new clade; averostriformes
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new, fragmentary neotheropod from wales; its estimated mandible length is around twice the size of liliensternus, but that doesn't mean the animal itself was twice the size of liliensternus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Re-assessment of a large archosaur dentary from the Late Triassic of South Wales, United Kingdom
A large jaw of a predatory archosaur from the latest Triassic of South Wales, named Zanclodon cambrensis, has long intrigued vertebrate palaeontologis…
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September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
new, fragmentary neotheropod from wales; its estimated mandible length is around twice the size of liliensternus, but that doesn't mean the animal itself was twice the size of liliensternus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A (speculative) reconstruction of Kayentavenator!
With the holotype being a juvenile alongside with it being a transitional Neotheropod-Tetanuran, Monolophosaurus and Sinosaurus were anatomically referenced, giving it a larger adult size, being one of the larger predators of the Kayenta Formation!
With the holotype being a juvenile alongside with it being a transitional Neotheropod-Tetanuran, Monolophosaurus and Sinosaurus were anatomically referenced, giving it a larger adult size, being one of the larger predators of the Kayenta Formation!
October 1, 2023 at 4:12 PM
A (speculative) reconstruction of Kayentavenator!
With the holotype being a juvenile alongside with it being a transitional Neotheropod-Tetanuran, Monolophosaurus and Sinosaurus were anatomically referenced, giving it a larger adult size, being one of the larger predators of the Kayenta Formation!
With the holotype being a juvenile alongside with it being a transitional Neotheropod-Tetanuran, Monolophosaurus and Sinosaurus were anatomically referenced, giving it a larger adult size, being one of the larger predators of the Kayenta Formation!
Prehistoric animal of the day
Day 38: Cryolophosaurus
Family: Neotheropod
Name meaning: Frozen crest
Size: 1025 lb (465 kg)
Time period: Early Jurassic (183-199 million years ago)
Location: Antarctica
Fun fact: Cryolophosaurus had a large distinct crest
Day 38: Cryolophosaurus
Family: Neotheropod
Name meaning: Frozen crest
Size: 1025 lb (465 kg)
Time period: Early Jurassic (183-199 million years ago)
Location: Antarctica
Fun fact: Cryolophosaurus had a large distinct crest
November 27, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Prehistoric animal of the day
Day 38: Cryolophosaurus
Family: Neotheropod
Name meaning: Frozen crest
Size: 1025 lb (465 kg)
Time period: Early Jurassic (183-199 million years ago)
Location: Antarctica
Fun fact: Cryolophosaurus had a large distinct crest
Day 38: Cryolophosaurus
Family: Neotheropod
Name meaning: Frozen crest
Size: 1025 lb (465 kg)
Time period: Early Jurassic (183-199 million years ago)
Location: Antarctica
Fun fact: Cryolophosaurus had a large distinct crest
Fossil of the day isss Cryolophosaurus! It was a neotheropod from early Jurassic Antarctica! One species is known, C. ellioti. It was the first nonavian dinosaur to be named after discovery in Antarctica, showing a somewhat warmer climate for the region. The name means Cold Crested Lizard!
December 31, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Fossil of the day isss Cryolophosaurus! It was a neotheropod from early Jurassic Antarctica! One species is known, C. ellioti. It was the first nonavian dinosaur to be named after discovery in Antarctica, showing a somewhat warmer climate for the region. The name means Cold Crested Lizard!
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution
Abstract. Averostra (= Ceratosauria + Tetanurae) is a crucial clade that includes nearly all theropods from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) to the Late Creta
academic.oup.com
May 8, 2026 at 8:49 PM
A new non-averostran neotheropod specimen from the Early Jurassic of Southwestern China and its implications for early theropod evolution academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...