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compsognathus
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What does compsognathus mean?
noun
- very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria
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As Compsognathus walked upon its hind legs, it must have made tracks like those of birds.
Even the wide interval between birds and reptiles has been shown by the naturalist just quoted to be partially bridged over in the most unexpected manner, on the one hand, by the ostrich and extinct Archeopteryx, and on the other hand by the Compsognathus, one of the Dinosaurians—that group which includes the most gigantic of all terrestrial reptiles.