Pterospondylus

 Pterospondylus (meaning "winged vertebra") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a coelophysoidtheropod which lived in what is now Germany(Trossingen Formation). The type species, Pterospondylus trielbae, (derived from "Tri", in reference to the Triassic period, and "Elba", for the Elbe River area^[1]), was described by Jaekel in 1913-14 for a single back vertebra.^[1]Sometimes, it is aligned with Procompsognathus,^[2] or even considered to be synonymous with it,^[3] despite being based on a vertebra that is twice the size of the corresponding bone in Procompsognathus.^[4]

Pterospondylus Temporal range: Norian ~216 Ma  PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Back vertebra in several views
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Coelophysidae
Genus:	†Pterospondylus Jaekel, 1913
Species:	†P. trielbae
Binomial name
†Pterospondylus trielbae Jaekel, 1913

Restoration

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