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| Name | Halticosaurus | |||
| Order | Saurischia | |||
| Suborder | Theropoda | |||
| Name Translation | Long-Tarsus Nimble Lizard | |||
| Period | Late Triassic Period | |||
| Location | Germany | |||
| Diet | Carnivore | |||
| Size | 16.9 feet (5.15 metres) | |||
Halticosaurus (meaning "nimble lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period. It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany. Some researchers consider Halticosaurus the same genus as Liliensternus, but Samuel Welles found differences in the femoral head and the anterior trochanter.
Species[]
The type species, Halticosaurus longotarsus, was based on partial jawbones and teeth, partial vertebrae, a few arm and leg bones, and fragments of an ilium, and was found mixed in with the remains of a prosauropod dinosaur, Sellosaurus gracilis. A second species assigned to this genus, "Halticosaurus orbitoangulatus", turned out to be a crocodylomorph. A third species, H. liliensterni, has been reclassified as Liliensternus.