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Presentation Compsognathus By the student 8 «v» class Vorobyeva Ann
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Compsognathus
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DIET Compsognathus was a carnivore (a meat eater) that caught and ate small animals, including insects and lizards.
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Compsognathus was first discovered in limestone deposits in the Riedenburg- Kelheim region of Bavaria, southern Germany in the late 1850's.
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Special features Compsognathus ran very fast.
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