| Named By: | Mignon Talbot in 1911 |
| Time Period: | Early Jurassic, 183 Ma |
| Location: | USA, - Portland Formation |
| Size: | About 90 centimetres long |
| Diet: | Insectivore/Carnivore |
| Fossil(s): | Two individuals of partial remains. Holotype destroyed in a fire |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Coelophysoidea | Coelophysidae | |
Podokesaurus ("swift-footed lizard") was a small carnivorous dinosaur that living during the Pliensbachian-Toarcian stages of the Early Jurassic Period, and as such is one of the earliest known dinosaurs to inhabit the eastern United States.