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- "Animals like Dromaeosaurus, Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Coelurus—predators three to six feet tall—must have been found here in abundance."
- —Examples of carnivores at Snakewater, Montana(src)
Coelurus, also called Coelurosaurus, was a small dinosaur mentioned in Jurassic Park. Coelurus was mentioned to be a carnivore, while Coelurosaurus was mentioned to be an herbivore being cloned.
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Coelurus is one of the smaller predators Alan Grant expects to find fossils of at his dig site at Snakewater. These creatures could have fed on the eggs of the large Hadrosaurus herd that was nesting there. It should be noted that Coelurus lived during the Jurassic period, not the Cretaceous, so it couldn't have eaten the eggs in real life.
Coelurosaurus was later mentioned by Henry Wu as being in the stage of getting its DNA, describing it as a small herbivore to Alan Grant and the others. However, he stated he wasn't sure on these details.
Coelurosaurus is never seen on the animal count so it can be assumed that Jurassic Park hadn't actually bred one before the Costa Rican government destroyed the park. Since it was never successfully bred into the park, it is unknown if frog DNA had been used to clone "Coelurosaurus" (Coelurus).
It is also unknown if there were ever any populations that survived on Isla Sorna during the events of The Lost World; it is most likely that they were killed off due to their lack of reproduction, or they were nesting in a different region of the island.
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- The herbivore species likely mentioned by Wu within the first novel was "possibly" a misspelling of Coelosaurus. Which is a fragmentary dubious species of theropod discovered in 1865, it was later reattributed to Ornithomimus in 1979, however another paleontologist in 2004 suggested it could be a intermediate species of the other Ornithomimids. Additionally in 1979, a specimen also named Coelosaurus was rediscovered that had been named in 1854, preoccupying the same name "Coelosaurus". Meaning the already unclear specimen from 1865 is now sharing a name with another fragmentary specimen.
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