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Compsognathus longipes

Reptilia - Compsognathidae

Taxonomy
Compsognathus longipes was named by Wagner (1861). Its type specimen is BSP ASI 563, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Compsognathus type, Kapfelberg (BSP), which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Painten Formation of Germany.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Ostrom (1981).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Compsognathus longipes Wagner p. 94
1863Compsognathus longipes Gegenbaur p. 467
1864Compsognathus longipes Gegenbaur p. 85
1867Compsognathus longipes Quenstedt pp. 150-151
1870Compsognathus gracilis Cope p. 120
1873Compsognathus longipes Gervais p. 84
1882Compsognathus longipes Quenstedt p. 189
1885Compsognathus longipes Woodward p. 12
1888Compsognathus longipes Lydekker p. 156
1889Compsognathus longipes Dollo p. 679
1890Compsognathus longipes Gaudry p. 211
1890Compsognathus longipes Zittel p. 734
1891Compsognathus longipes Boule p. 17
1893Compsognathus longipes Winkler p. 99
1895Compsognathus longipes Marsh p. 686
1896Compsognathus longipes Marsh p. 163
1898Compsognathus longipes Woodward p. 199
1901Compsognathus longipes Gadow p. 423
1901Compsognathus longipes Nopcsa p. 202
1902Compsognathus longipes Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxix
1911Compsognathus longipes von Zittel p. 283
1914Compsognathus longipes Fraas p. 129–130
1915Compsognathus longipes Lull p. 166 fig. 30
1923Compsognathus longipes Huene p. 455
1926Compsognathus longipes Huene p. 82
1928Compsognathus longipes Perrier p. 3087
1929Compsognathus longipes Jaekel p. 234
1931Compsognathus longipes Stromer p. 18
1934Compsognathus longipes Stromer p. 74
1934Compsognathus longipes Swinton p. 31
1939Compsognathus longipes Kuhn p. 43
1958Compsognathus longipes Kuhn p. 25
1964Compsognathus longipes Tatarinov p. 531
1970Compsognathus longipes Steel p. 15
1970Compsognathus longipes Swinton p. 124
1972Compsognathus corallestris Bidar et al.
1972Compsognathus longipes Bidar et al. p. 8
1972Compsognathus corallestris Bidar et al. p. 2327
1972Compsognathus longipes Bidar et al. p. 2327
1974Compsognathus corallestris Ellenberger
1975Compsognathus longipes Casamiquela p. 97
1976Compsognathus corallestris Behrens p. 531
1977Compsognathus corallestris Raath p. 210
1978Compsognathus longipes Ostrom p. 75
1979Compsognathus corallestris Benton p. 142
1980Compsognathus longipes Coombs p. 381
1981Compsognathus longipes McIntosh p. 9
1982Compsognathus longipes Coombs, Jr. p. 102
1983Compsognathus longipes Rich et al. p. 284
1984Compsognathus longipes Welles p. 162
1988Compsognathus longipes Paul p. 297
1996Compsognathus longipes Novas p. 676
1997Compsognathus corallestris Currie and Padian p. 368
1997Compsognathus longipes Ostrom et al. pp. A-461
1998Compsognathus longipes Holtz, Jr. p. 38
2003Compsognathus longipes Peyer p. 87A
2003Compsognathus longipes Rauhut p. 25
2004Compsognathus longipes Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76
2004Compsognathus longipes Hwang et al. p. 28 fig. 12
2006Compsognathus longipes Göhlich et al. p. 7
2006Compsognathus longipes Peyer p. 880
2007Compsognathus longipes Gishlick and Gauthier p. 569
2007Compsognathus longipes Turner et al. p. 27
2009Compsognathus longipes Gierlinski et al. p. 225
2009Compsognathus longipes van der Lubbe et al. p. 405
2010Compsognathus longipes Chiappe and Göhlich p. 263
2012Compsognathus longipes Carrano et al. p. 227
2012Compsognathus longipes Reisdorf and Wuttke p. 132
2012Compsognathus longipes Xing et al. p. 1
2013Compsognathus longipes Poropat and Kear p. 105
2014Compsognathus longipes Peyer et al. p. 417
2016Compsognathus longipes Hu et al. p. 191
2020Compsognathus longipes Malafaia et al. p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
familyCompsognathidae
genusCompsognathus
specieslongipes

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Compsognathus longipes Wagner 1861
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Invalid names: Compsognathus corallestris Bidar et al. 1972 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. T. Carrano et al. 2012Coelurosaur with a possibly unique character combination of: (1) ventral process at posterior end of premaxillary body; (2) opisthocoelous cervical vertebrae; (3) metacarpal I less than 1/3 length of metacarpal II; (4) pollex terminates at or below distal end of phalanx I of digit II; and (5) fourth trochanter on femur absent (all from Peyer 2006).
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
humerus diameter29.067.4011.19.252.62
tibia diameter19.80----

Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialg
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingg
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: insectivoreg
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-24 13:22:41
Modified: 2005-12-28 16:59:24
Source: g = genus, o = order
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 152.21000 to 145.06000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian154.8 - 149.2France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Compsognathus longipes (92110)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian152.21 - 149.2Germany (Bayern) Compsognathus longipes (type locality: 57682)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Compsognathus corallestris (35262)