The Liliensternus, The oldest carnivore dinosaur
Let's go back in time by a couple of millions of years as we talk about dinosaurs for this week's post. The Liliensternus was a bipedal dinosaur that lived roughly 210 million years ago in the Late Triassic era. They were medium-sized bipedal carnivores long before early predators like Diliphosaure or Syntarsus (the latter could potentially even be a descendent of the Liliensternus). Eventually, that makes it one of the oldest carnivores in the dinosaur era. It shared the same time frame with his closest cousin: the Coelophysis – another small predator.
Its adult size is still unknown, however. It was still considered young at 3 meters long, meaning that it could be much more significant. This dinosaur was first discovered in Germany in 1934 and was fully classified 50 years later. More recently, fossils were found in New Mexico, and they could potentially belong to Liliensternus.
