- Scientific name
- Compsognathus longipes
- Period
- Late Jurassic
- Length
- 1 m
- Height
- 0.3 m
- Weight
- 0.0 tonnes
- Diet
- Carnivore
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Late Jurassic
Compsognathus
Compsognathus longipes
Chicken-sized, and for a long time the smallest dinosaur known. There are several along the trail at ankle height, which is exactly where children spot them and adults do not.
Did you know
About the size of a chicken. Look down, not up.