what is compsognathus?
A genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur.
Compsognathus
Compsognathus (; Greek "kompsos"/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and "gnathos"/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur.
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Compsognathus [SEP] Introduction
Compsognathus (; Greek "kompsos"/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and "gnathos"/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to around the size of a turkey. They lived about 150 million years ago, during the Tithonian age of the late Jurassic period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany in the 1850s and the second in France more than a century later. Today, "C. longipes" is the only recognized species, although the larger specimen discovered in France in the 1970s was once thought to belong to a separate species and named "C.