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Definition of Genus Compsognathus
1. Noun. A reptile genus of Theropoda.
Group relationships: Suborder Theropoda, Theropoda
Member holonyms: Compsognathus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Compsognathus
Literary usage of Genus Compsognathus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural by Richard Lydekker (1888)
"The type genus. Compsognathus longipes, Wagner ". The type species. Length about
0450. Hob. Europe (Germany). 49159. Cast of a slab of lithographic ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"In the very remarkable genus Compsognathus of the Solenhofen slates, which is
nearly allied to the Dinosauria, and included, with them, in the order, ..."
3. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... and even designated the genus Compsognathus as a uniting link between this
extinct group of reptiles and the younger and more specialised group of birds ..."
4. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Ninetheenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... and even designated the genus Compsognathus as a uniting link between this
extinct group of reptiles and the younger and more specialised group of birds ..."
5. An Introduction to the Classification of Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1869)
"In no known reptile are the metatarsal and tarsal bones ankylosed into one bone,
except, perhaps, in the extinct genus Compsognathus. ..."
6. Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology by Arthur Nicols (1880)
"The genus Compsognathus, from the Solenhofen beds, exhibits bird characters to
an extent greater, perhaps, than any other of these forms, ..."
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