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The 'Coelophysidae' are a family of primitive carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. Most species were relatively small in size. The family flourished in the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods.
Under cladistic analysis, Coelophysidae was first defined by Paul Sereno in 1998 as the most recent common ancestor of ''Coelophysis bauri'' and ''Procompsognathus triassicus'', and all of that common ancestor's descendants.
Coelophysidae is part of the Superfamily Coelophysoidea. The obsolete term "Podokesauridae", though named 14 years prior to Coelophysidae (which would normally grant it priority), is now usually treated as a junior synonym, since its type specimen was destroyed in a fire and can no longer be compared to new finds. [1]

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Classification

★ 'Family Coelophysidae'

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★ ''Gojirasaurus''

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★ ''Podokesaurus''

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★ ''Pterospondylus''

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★ ''Segisaurus''

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★ ''Procompsognathus''

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★ 'Subfamily Coelophysinae'

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★ ''Coelophysis''

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★ ''Megapnosaurus'' (formerly ''Syntarsus'')

References

★ Taxon Search: Coelophysidae