Compsognathus
Compsognathus
PrehistoricPhoto: Jaime A. Headden ( User:Qilong ) · CC BY 3.0
DinosaurExtinctcarnivore
Compsognathus was a small, meat-eating dinosaur that scampered around Europe about 150 million years ago. About the size of a chicken, this speedy little predator is known from just two well-preserved fossils found in Germany and France.
- Walked on two legs like most carnivorous dinosaurs.
- Only one confirmed species, Compsognathus longipes.
- Lived during the late Jurassic period.
ForestEurope
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- Classification
- Dinosaur
- Scientific name
- Compsognathus
- Habitat
- Forest
- Regions in this directory
- Europe
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- small
