Compsognathus

Anyway, Mirischia is enough like Compsognathus – particularly in the detailed anatomy of its pubis – for me to convince myself that it must belong together with Compsognathus in a little clade, and by definition this clade has to be called Compsognathidae.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Some of these are brilliantly staged: a teed-off Tyrannosaurus rex shoves a huge trailer over a cliff with Sar ah trapped inside; a swarm of mini-dinos called Compys (full name, Compsognathus) nibbles a guy to death.

T. Rex Redux 2008

The pelvic anatomy of Dilong – an undoubted basal tyrannosauroid – is (like that of Mirischia) rather like that of Compsognathus.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

So in the 2004 paper, Naish et al. argued strenuously that (1) there is a little clade called Compsognathidae, the members of which can be united on the basis of shared derived characters, and (2) in addition to Compsognathus, this clade includes Sinosauropteryx and Mirischia.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

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.

XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Affinities of Extinct Species to Each Other, and to Living Forms 1909

In the succeeding Jurassic Period we have the _Compsognathus_, smallest of known dinosaurs, and this _Ornitholestes_ some six feet long.

Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

The general appearance is shown in the restorations of _Ornitholestes_, _Compsognathus_ and

Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

A cast of the _Compsognathus_ skeleton is shown, the original found in the lithographic limestone of Solenhofen is preserved in the

Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

Dinosaurians have remarkable affinities to birds, and that one of them, the Compsognathus, makes a nearer approach to bird organisation than does Archæopteryx to that of reptiles.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

As _Compsognathus_ walked upon its hind legs, it must have made tracks like those of birds.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860