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One of the oldest known dinosaurs
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coelophysis
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n. one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic
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Coelophysis (; pron.: or ) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 203 to 196 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now the southwestern United States . It was a small, slenderly-built, ...
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A herd of heedless coelophysis ran before her and she swung her great head into them as they passed, tearing and snapping, leaving the ground strewn with twitching, wriggling limbs, bodies, and tails.