Page 25 - 2020 Booklet

DINOSAUR NATURA RANGE CONTINUES

TO ATTRACT INTEREST

Following the runaway success of the fine silver
Natura coin in 2019, the 2020 series repeats
the coin exclusively in silver and features the
Coelophysis rhodesiensis, a diminutive, bipedal
carnivore that preyed on small animals and
mammals, and which appeared around the same
prehistoric period.
The Coelophysids were highly successful primitive
theropod dinosaurs that occurred worldwide
between the late Triassic to early Jurassic
period. Coelophysis rhodesiensis occurred in
South Africa and Zimbabwe during the
early part of the Jurassic period
(approximately 201 to 199 million
years ago). Fossil records found
in Zimbabwe allude to their
propensity to hunt in packs.

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