Ornitholestes

This one was a local, something like the fossil Ornitholestes, and despite their similar size and body shape it was as closely related to Mr. Big Johnson as rat-headed Purgatorius was to Skinner and had an IQ slightly inferior to that of a chicken.

Archive 2009-07-05 Sean Craven 2009

This one was a local, something like the fossil Ornitholestes, and despite their similar size and body shape it was as closely related to Mr. Big Johnson as rat-headed Purgatorius was to Skinner and had an IQ slightly inferior to that of a chicken.

You Want Evopunk? I'll Give You Evopunk. Sean Craven 2009

The _Ornitholestes_ is from the Bone-Cabin Quarry in

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

_Allosaurus_, _Ornitholestes_ -- Upper Jurassic period.

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

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

-- R.storation of _Ornitholestes_, by C.R. Knight under direction of Professor Osborn.

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

_ Of all the bird-like dinosaurs which have been discovered, none possesses greater similitude to the birds than the gem of the quarry, the little animal about seven feet in length which we have named _Ornitholestes_, or the "bird-catching dinosaur."

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

-- Skeleton of _Ornitholestes_ a small carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic period.

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