Compsognathus
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Compsognathus is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to around the size of a chicken. They lived about 150 million
Compy
Joseph Oberndorfer acquired this fossil in Bavaria, Germany, in 1859. Shown here is a cast at the Bavarian State Institute for Paleontology and Historical Geology.
The fossil from Canjuers, France
Evidence from related species suggests that the body might have been covered with feather-like structures.
Archaeopteryx
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Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel " is an extinct genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The genus name derives from the Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος, meaning 'ancient', and πτέρυξ, me
Compsognathus
…Until the 1990s, it was the smallest-known non-avialan dinosaur, with the preceding centuries incorrectly labelling it as the closest relative of Archaeopteryx. Compsognathus is known from two almost complete skeletons. The German specimen (specimen number BSP AS I 563) stems from limestone deposits in Bavaria…
Archaeopteryx lithographica
The single feather
Cast of the Maxberg Specimen
Eichstätt Specimen, once considered a distinct genus, Jurapteryx