#halticosaurus

[spuddragon]

Yet another dinosaur hybrid cause I'm kinda obsessed with making these rn. This one is a mix between a halticosaurus and a snake.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Halticosaurus longotarsus

Source: @artisticthingem who basically speed painted this so I could update the entry. She’s a wonderful human. And no, no fluff, but in her defense, it was a speedpaint; and in the scientific defense, we’re still not 100% sure they had floof anyway (just like 90%) 

Name: Halticosaurus longotarsus 

Name Meaning: Nimble Lizard 

First Described: 1908

Described By: Huene 

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Coelophysoidea, Halticosauridae, Halticosaurinae 

Halticosaurus was another Coelophysoid from the late Triassic period, around 208 million years ago in the Norian stage. It was found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of present day Germany. Though similar to Liliensternus, there are differences between the two in the head and the leg bones. Not much is known about it, due to scattered fossil material. It was frequently mixed up with many other Coelophysoid species from the area, such as Lophostropheus and Liliensternus. It was, however, a lightly built theropod dinosaur that lived with the aforementioned Coelophysoids, early sauropodomorphs, and pterosaurs. 

Sources: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halticosaurus

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/h/halticosaurus.html

http://dinosaurs.wikia.com/wiki/Halticosaurus

Weishampel, D. B. (2007). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Today's shout out goes to can-has!