Genus: Compsognathus WAGNER, 1861
Etymology: Greek, kompsos “elegant [delicate, adorned]”, and Greek, gnathus, jaw; elegant jaw.

Species: longipes WAGNER, 1861
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Holotype: IPHG ASI 563 (BSP 1563)

Locality: Jachenhausen? Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Lithographic, Solnhofen.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Skull and skeleton.

Note: Partial skeleton of the lizard Bavarisaurus cf. macrodactylus found in the stomach region.

= Compsognathus corallestris BIDAR, DEMAY & THOMEL, 1972
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Holotype:

Locality: <<Petit Plan>>, Canjuers, Var Department, France.

Horizon: Portlandian Lithographic limestone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Tithonian? Or Kimmeridgian Stage? Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Skull and nearly complete skeleton.

Note: Has impressions of the gastrointestinal remnants. Also disparate sizes of cervical, dorsal vertebrae as well as scattered placement of a coracoid and pelvic elements among the gastric contents suggets multiple individuals within the gastric area (possibly belonging to sphenodontids or lizards) (PEYER, 2006).