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Coelophysis is a theropod dinosaur; belonging in a group called Coelophysidae.

There are two main groups of dinosaur, saurischian and ornithischians.

Theropods are a type of saurischian dinosaur.

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What is this it was a small meat eating dinosaur it was only ten feet long and stood as tall as a man it skeletons have been found in New Mexico and Massachusetts?

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