Theropod's restoration. Credit: Credit: Danny Cicchetti
Pterospondylus trielbae is a vaguely Dubious genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur that lived in Germany during the Late Triassic period.
Description[]
The dorsal vertebra; holotype
The genus and species name means "winged vertebra". It was a coelophysid theropod which lived in what is now Germany; Trossingen Formation. The type species, Pterospondylus trielbae, was described by Jaekel between 1913 to 1914 for a single back vertebra.
Sometimes, its rather aligned with Procompsognathus, or even considered to be synonymous with it; despite being based on a vertebra that is twice the size of the corresponding bone in Procompsognathus. The validity debate and situation of this theropod is reminiscent of the conversations about Saurophaganax - Epanterias and Allosaurus; or between Concavenator and Prodeinodon.
References[]
- https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/receive/dbbs_mods_00059197
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001669950800082X
- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Pterospondylus-trielbae-JAEKEL-isolated-dorsal-vertebra-holotype-Knollenmergel_fig3_235907478 [The dorsal vertebra, holotype]
- http://www.keuper.us.edu.pl/02_Keuper-literature/Huene%201932%20I%20Fossile-reptil-ordnung.pdf
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1992.10011473
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/4523471
- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/procompsognathus.html
- https://dinosaurpictures.org/Procompsognathus-pictures
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