1. Presentation Compsognathus By the student 8 «v» class Vorobyeva Ann

2. Compsognathus

3. Skeleton

4. Compsognathus was a small, bipedal animal with long hind legs and a long tail. Its delicate skull was narrow and long, with a tapered snout. The eyes were large in proportion to the rest of the skull.

5. Compsognathus was 0.7-1.4 m long, it weighed about 3 kg and was about the size of a chicken. Its femur was only 11 cm long.

6. WHEN COMPSOGNATHUS LIVED Compsognathus lived in the late Jurassic period, about 155 to 145 million years ago. Among the contemporaries of Compsognathus were Coelurus and Ornitholestes.

7. DIET Compsognathus was a carnivore (a meat eater) that caught and ate small animals, including insects and lizards.

8. Compsognathus was first discovered in limestone deposits in the Riedenburg- Kelheim region of Bavaria, southern Germany in the late 1850's.

9. Special features Compsognathus ran very fast.