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Compsognathus

It’s a kind, a genus of dinosaurs that lived in the late Jurassic period. They existed
about 150 million years ago.
Two well-preserved fossils were found on German and French territories. Because
of the size of German archetype, it is considered that this genus of dinosaurs is
ancestor of hens. They are named „chicken dinosaurs“ often.
It’s one of the few kinds whose diet is known. They ate tiny lizards whose remains
were found out in the bellies of both archetypes.
For decades, Compsognathus were famed as the smallest dinosaurs known; the
first specimen collected was around 1 m in length.
Compsognathus were small two-legged creatures with long hind legs and longer
tails. They used their tails for maintaining (keeping) balance during movement.
Forward finitenesses were smaller than hind items. Forward items had claws, two
big fingers and one smaller, maybe useless. Skulls were narrow and long, with
pointed muzzles. Their teeth were tiny but very sharp, they were used for eating of
small vertebrates and insects. As for the skin integument. Some scientists suppose
that their skin was covered with feathers like fur. But some researches showed that
feathers-covered skin wasn’t an ubiquitous phenomenon.
Pteranodon
It is a genus pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with
wingspans over 7 meters. They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period
of North America.
More fossil specimens of Pteranodon have been found than any other pterosaur,
with about 1,200 specimens known to science, many of them well-preserved with
nearly complete skulls and articulated skeletons.
Pteranodon was a pterosaur, meaning that it is not a dinosaur. Pteranodon was the
first pterosaur found outside of Europe.
They didn’t have any teeth and had bone ridges on skulls. Also, they had very wide
pelvic channels. This was an opportunity to lay eggs. They were females. And
beings with narrow pelvic channels were males. The wingspan of an average adult
male Pteranodon was 5.6 meters. Adult females were much smaller, averaging 3.8
meters in wingspan.
Pteranodon had toothless beaks, similar to those of birds. The beaks were long,
slender, and ended in thin, sharp points.
The diet of Pteranodon is known to have included fish; fossilized fish bones have
been found in the stomach area of one Pteranodon.

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