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A Scene from the Landscape at Solnhofen (Bavaria) 150 Million years ago. The small Theropod Compsognathus is chasing Archaeopteryx.
Illustration from „Der Flug des Archaeopteryx“ („The Flight of the Archaeopteryx“), Quelle & Meyer Verlag, 2007
Updated 22 12 2019
Species: C.longipes.
Meaning of name: Pretty jaw.
Germany, Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic.
Classification: Theropoda, Tetanurae, Coelurosauria.
Length: 1m +
Lifestyle: Carnivore and Insectivore.
Compsognathus now has feathers see newer image.
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Dinosaurs (Greek δεινόσαυρος, deinosauros) were the dominant vertebrate animals of terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period (about 230 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event. The 10,000 living species of birds have been classified as dinosaurs.
The term "dinosaur" was coined in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen and derives from Greek δεινός (deinos) "terrible, powerful, wondrous" + σαῦρος (sauros) "lizard". It is sometimes used informally to describe other prehistoric reptiles, such as the pelycosaur Dimetrodon, the winged pterosaurs, and the aquatic ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, although none of these animals were dinosaurs. Through the first half of the 20th century, most of the scientific community believed dinosaurs to have been slow, unintelligent cold-blooded animals. Most research conducted since the 1970s, however, has supported the view that dinosaurs were active animals with elevated metabolisms and numerous adaptations for social interaction. The resulting transformation in the scientific understanding of dinosaurs has gradually filtered into popular consciousness.
The 1861 discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx first suggested a close relationship between dinosaurs and birds. Aside from the presence of fossilized feather impressions, Archaeopteryx was very similar to the contemporary small predatory dinosaur Compsognathus. Research has since identified theropod dinosaurs as the most likely direct ancestors of birds; most paleontologists today regard birds as the only surviving dinosaurs, and some suggest that dinosaurs and birds should be grouped into one biological class.[1] Aside from birds, crocodilians are the only other close relatives of dinosaurs to have survived until the present day. Like dinosaurs and birds, crocodilians are members of Archosauria, a group of reptiles that first appeared in the very late Permian and came to predominate in the mid-Triassic.
Since the first dinosaur fossils were recognized in the early nineteenth century, mounted dinosaur skeletons have become major attractions at museums around the world. Dinosaurs have become a part of world culture and remain consistently popular. They have been featured in best-selling books and films (notably Jurassic Park), and new discoveries are regularly covered by the media. from wikepedia
Spot several Compsognathus gathering underneath the screw pine tree inside the Climatron during DinoQuest. Photo by Jeff Ricker, courtesy Missouri Botanical Garden.
We're all aware of dinosaurs from movies such as Jurassic Park and King Kong, but how much do you really know about dinosaurs? Here are 10 facts about dinosaurs which you can amaze your friends and family with:
1. Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period (248 to 213 million years ago), and were the dominant land animals by the entire Jurassic period, and to the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).
2. We know about dinosaurs because fossils have been found. The fossils, which are generally found in sedimentary rocks, including fossilized body parts (bones, teeth, skin, claws, etc.), as well as trace fossils ("ichnofossils") which show how the animals lived, which include footprints, burrows, nests, toothmarks, dung, etc.
3. The earth's continents slowly move by a process often called "plate tectonics". When dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period, all the earth's continents were joined together in one super-continent often called "Pangea".
4. All the familiar sorts of dinosaurs, died off at the end of the Cretaceous period. There are a lot of different theories why this may occasionally have happened, but in the present day the most popular theory is that an asteroid hit the earth, blocking out the sunlight so that there was not enough food available. Evidence for this theory is a layer of iridium, which is believed to have come from the asteroid, has been found around the world, and a possible impact site found in southern Mexico.
5. The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus, which lived in Europe during the late Jurassic, and was about the size of a chicken. Compsognathus is believed to have eaten insects, lizards and other small animals.
6. There are quite a few candidates for the largest dinosaur, as there are several sorts of dinosaur that were over 100 feet (30 metres) long. The largest was certainly some kind of sauropod (a four-legged plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck) that lived during the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous period.
7. The word "dinosaur" was coined by Sir Richard Owen, who also founded the Natural History Museum in London, England. "Dinosaur" means terrible lizard, and is based on the Greek words "deinos" (terrible) and "sauros" (lizard).
8. People have been finding dinosaur fossils for a whole bunch of years, but didn't know what they were until quite recently. The first time that a dinosaur was scientifically described was in 1824, by William Buckland.
9. At the same time that dinosaurs dominated the land, there were many aquatic reptiles that dominated the seas, although these were not dinosaurs. These aquatic reptiles included plesiosaurs, nothosaurs, mosasaurs and ichythosaurs.
10. Although birds seem to have evolved from dinosaurs, no non-avian flying dinosaurs are known. However, at the time of dinosaurs there were many flying reptiles, often called pterosaurs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vATe8IpN2TQ
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 years ago, during the Tithonian age of the late Jurassic period, in what is now Europe.
This little guy stretches from head to toe to about 1m long. This is one of the smallest dinosaurs around.
Compsognathus on display as part of the "DinoQuest: A Tropical Trek Through Time" exhibition, open May 1-Oct. 3, 2010. Photo by Caroline Philippone, courtesy Missouri Botanical Garden.
You know sometimes it doesn't pay to try and better yourself. For example as I'm uploading these pics this exact plaster replica, retail $over 30.00, falls off of my wall and breaks into three large pieces. Well Hope you have a Merry Christmas
Scale: 1:5.5
Producer: Rebor
Released: 2016
Time: Late Jurassic Eurasia
Commentary and additional photos: dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3390.msg145632#msg1...
Actually I like my dinosaurs rather more scaly and lizardy looking, the good old reptilian way. Despite of that, I decided to give this Compsognathus a nice protofeathered photoshop fur. I guess he tries to look intimidating in it.
(c) C. Hoppenbrock / www.bildbauer.de
This fossil Ammonite was brought back from Solnhofen, Germany for me as a gift from my brother.
Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e. octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species.
Ammonites are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods. Their fossil shells usually take the form of planispirals, although there were some helically-spiraled and non-spiraled forms (known as heteromorphs).
The name ammonite, from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly-coiled rams' horns. Pliny the Elder (d. 79 AD. near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically depicted wearing ram's horns.[1] Often the name of an ammonite genus ends in -ceras, which is Greek (κέρας) for "horn".
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Solnhofen:
Solnhofen (near Munich in the south of Germany) is one of the world’s most famous fossil sites. In the Upper Jurassic, approximately 150 million years ago, a lagoon with a direct connection to the open sea covered this area. The deposits have formed light-coloured rock layers that can easily be broken into plates. Already in the Middle Ages these were used as roof and floor covering, but especially in the 19th century they were used a lot in the lithographic industry. During this period, a lot of fossils were found. Due to the fine-grained structure of the rocks, they show even the smallest details. More than 400 different fossil animal species from the Solnhofen area have been determined. Not only from marine animals such as fishes, crustaceans, star fishes etc., but also from animals that lived on land. These have been carried to the lagoon by rivers and mudflows (reptiles, insects, and even one dinosaur species, Compsognathus), or flew above the lagoon and fell down in the water (maybe during a storm) and drowned (pterosaurs, and the most famous of all Solnhofen fossils, the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx).
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Name : Pachycephalosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Compsognathus
Paper : 3 sheet of paper. 15cmX15cm / 2 sheet of paper. (1/2 right triangle recommended) - Compsognathus
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Date : 2011. 1. 25.
Publish : diagraming for 'Kebikids'
Late Jurassic (150 million years ago). Solnhofen Germany. Also known as "compys" from the Lost World
Nargus Lab dino avatar shop and dinosaur park. Electric fence, reinforced dome, and laboratory -- raptor, ptera, t-rex, compsognathus
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