Definition of Genus Compsognathus

1. Noun. A reptile genus of Theropoda.

Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Suborder Theropoda, Theropoda
Member holonyms: Compsognathus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Compsognathus

genus Collinsia
genus Collinsonia
genus Collocalia
genus Colobus
genus Colocasia
genus Coluber
genus Colubrina
genus Columba
genus Columnea
genus Colutea
genus Comandra
genus Comatula
genus Combretum
genus Commelina
genus Commiphora
genus Compsognathus (current term)
genus Comptonia
genus Condylura
genus Conepatus
genus Conferva
genus Conilurus
genus Coniogramme
genus Conium
genus Connarus
genus Connochaetes
genus Conocarpus
genus Conoclinium
genus Conopodium
genus Conradina

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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