Dinosaurs 101

  

Meet our own Cee Lo!

Coelophysis! SEE-lo- FIE sis! Or Cee Lo for short!

No relation to this guy! 

Cee Lo was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. This predator was about 9 feet long. He had light, hollow bones, a long, pointed head with dozens of small, serrated teeth, three clawed fingers on its hands, and a long neck.

Two types of Coelophysis fossils have been found, 'robust' and 'gracile.' These two forms probably represent males and females. 
Did you know? A Coelophysis skull from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was brought into space by the space shuttle Endeavor on January 22, 1998. It traveled to the space station Mir. He was beat into space by almost 3 years by Mr. Maiasura.

Coelophysis lived  roughly 210 million years ago; it was one of the earliest-known dinosaurs. Cee Lo lived in what was then a seasonally dry, desert-like environment, a savanna-type climate perhaps like modern-day Kenya without the grasses.

Cee Lo Coelophysis was a carnivore, a meat eater. He may also have been a scavenger.
Cee Lo probably lived and hunted in packs; this is suggested by the existence of fossil bonebeds of hundreds of Coelophysis  found at the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, USA.