Megapnosaurus

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Megapnosaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Superfamily: Coelophysoidea
Family: Coelophysidae
Genus: Megapnosaurus
Ivie, Slipinski and Wegrzynowicz, 2001
Species
M. rhodesiensis(type)
M. kayentakatae
Synonyms
Syntarsus Raath, 1969

Megapnosaurus was a small dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a relative of Coelophysis but it had two crests on top of its head. It is shown in the movie When Dinosaurs Roamed America atttacking an Anchisaurus and getting scared off by a Dilophosaurus. It was called Syntarsus at that time.

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