Compsognathus longipes Escala:1:10 Height 205 mm

Height 205 mm

possibly used to detect movements in water

its size suggests that it spent much of its time on the ground

leaving light footprints in the soft earth

Compsognathus longipes Escala:1:10 Height 205 mmCompsognathus longipes was a small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Europe, known primarily from two nearly complete skeletons recovered from the famous lithographic limestone deposits of Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany, and Canjuers in south eastern France. Originally described by Johann Andreas Wagner in 1861, this taxon became one of the classic species of European palaeontology and was long celebrated as one of the smallest