Cartorhynchus lenticarpus compsognathus Longitud hocico-cola 290 mm

Longitud hocico-cola 290 mm

was first described by Bohlin in 1953

providing thermal insulation in the desert environments where it lived

Some speculation suggests that it may have had similar coloration to other predatory dinosaurs

which gave it great locomotor versatility

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus compsognathus Longitud hocico-cola 290 mmCartorhynchus lenticarpus is an extinct species of primitive marine reptile belonging to the Ichthyosauriformes clade, recognized as one of the most basal representatives of this group that would later give rise to the classic ichthyosaurs of the Mesozoic. Its only known specimen was formally described by Ryosuke Motani and colleagues in 2014 from a nearly complete skeleton found in the Nanlinghu Formation , near Chaohu, Anhui Province (China) , and