NOVA SCOTIA COELOPHYSOID

[<darren.naish@port.ac.uk>]

David Marjanovic wrote...

> A nonavian small archosaur? There is an unnamed coelophysid from Nova
> Scotia as big as a blackbird (20 cm long)... 

Is this based on one of the captions in David Lambert's _The Ultimate 
Dinosaur_ book, published by that wonderful company Dorling 
Kindersley? :) It accompanies a John Sibbick drawing of two tiny 
coelophysoids chasing what looks like a bluebottle. If so, it's only 
based on trackway evidence - I asked David about this years ago. 
Apparently (and I say again, apparently) there are some Triassic 
theropod tracks there that are about  20 mm long - have these been 
published?

Sorry folks, there are no skeletal remains of 20 cm long Nova Scotian 
theropod (so far).

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