Coelophysis sp.
Theropod
Late Triassic
Bull Canyon Formation
San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA

12mm foot claw. Repaired.

Coelophysis is a genus of early theropod from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of Arizona, Connecticut, South Africa and Zimbabwe.  You might say that is some crazy distribution for a relatively small land animal.  However, at the time the Americas and Africa were attached to each other even as the supercontinent, Pangaea, was breaking apart, the continents just beginning to drift to the positions we know see today.

Here’s your chance to acquire a claw of the best-known dinosaur of the Triassic.