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Dilophosaurus (Jurassic, 201 to 189 million years) was a therapod dinosaur of the Ceratosauria family. The male had two prominent crests on its head that were most likely used for sexual display. It is closly related to Coelphysis.
Its length was around six meters (twenty feet) and it weighed approximately half a ton. Its diet consisted of small animals and fish. Its habitat was riverbanks in California and China, suggesting that the continents of Asia and North America were somehow linked.
This dinosaur was first described by Samuel Welles in 1954.
