A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago

Ursula B. Göhlich and Luis M. Chiappe ()
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Ursula B. Göhlich: University of Munich
Luis M. Chiappe: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7082, 329-332

Abstract: Feather Outlook Small, Late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaurs are rare worldwide, and in Europe are represented by just two poorly preserved Compsognathus skeletons. Göhlich and Chiappe describe a previously unknown theropod which, like Compsognathus and most specimens of Archaeopteryx, is from the Late Jurassic of Solnhofen, southern Germany. The new find is as well preserved as Archaeopteryx but, surprisingly, it shows absolutely no sign of feathery integument, suggesting that the evolution history of feathers in dinosaurs is a more complex tale than was thought.

Date: 2006
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