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KOPARION
(koe-pah-re-on)
meaning: "After an ancient version of a scalpel"
Named By: D. J. Chure in 1994
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 151 Ma
Location: USA, Utah - Morrison Formation
Size: Unavailable due to incomplete remains
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Teeth
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Coelurosauria | Troodontidae |
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Koparion is a genus of small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs (probably troodontids), from the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian stage), of Utah. It contains the single named species Koparion douglassi which is known only from a single isolated tooth.

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