Compsognathus
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phylum | Chordata | Compsognathus is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to the size of a turkey. They lived around 150 million years ago, the latest Kimmeridgian 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.
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clade | Diapsida | |
infraclass | Dinosauria | |
order | Saurischia | |
Suborder | Theropoda | |
family | Compsognathidae | |
genus | Compsognathus | |
species | C. longipes | |
Period | Late Jurassic |