Named By: | Eberhaad Fraas in 1913 |
Time Period: | Late Triassic, 210 Ma |
Location: | Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg - Lowenstein Formation |
Size: | Estimated about 1 meter long |
Diet: | Insectivore/Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Fragmentary skeleton |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Coelophysidae | |
Procompsognathus is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 210 million years ago during the later part of the Triassic Period, in what is now Germany. Procompsognathus was a small-sized, lightly built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that could grow up to 1 m (3.3 ft) long.