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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals, dinosaurs

Released Date: Dec 28 2008

Current ProcompsognathusMD_2008.ztd dated 25 December 2008

File Size: 394.43k

Compatibility: DD and CC

Description: Procompsognathus was a small archosaur that lived during the Late Triassic Period, about 222 to 219 million years ago.
Procompsognathus was named by Eberhard Fraas in 1913. He named the type species, P. triassicus, on the basis of a poorly-preserved skeleton found in W?rttemberg, Germany.
The name is derived from Compsognathus meaning 'elegant jaw' (Greek kompsos meaning 'elegant', 'refined' or 'dainty' and gnathos meaning 'jaw'), which was a later (Jurassic) dinosaur. The prefix pro implies 'before' or 'ancestor of', although this direct lineage is not supported by subsequent research.

While it is undoubtedly a small, bipedal carnivore, the extremely poor preservation of the only known Procompsognathus fossil makes its exact identity difficult to determine. It has historically been considered a theropod dinosaur, though some, such as Allen (2004), have found Procompsognathus to be a primitive, non-dinosaurian ornithodiran. Sereno and Wild (1992) stated that the holotype specimen consisted of fossils from two separate animals. They referred the skull to the primitive crocodylomorph Saltoposuchus, and the remainder of the skeleton to a ceratosaur related to Segisaurus. Rauhut and Hungerbuhler (2000) noted features of the vertebrae which suggest that Procompsognathus may be a coelophysid or ceratosaur, and Carrano et al. (2005), in their re-study of the related genus Segisaurus, found both Segisaurus and Procompsognathus to belong to the Coelophysidae within Dinosauria.

In Michael Crichton's novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Procompsognathus (often referred to as "compys") are one of the extinct species recreated through genetic engineering. Crichton portrays these dinosaurs as being venomous, a characteristic invented for the novel and not supported by fossil evidence. He also portrays them as scavengers and coprophagists (eaters of feces), useful in keeping the park clean of sauropod excrement. In the film adaptation of The Lost World, Procompsognathus were replaced with the distantly related coelurosaur Compsognathus. However, in the second film, Robert Burke refers to them as Compsognathus triassicus (triassicus being the type species of Procompsognathus).

Additional info:

ProcompsognathusMD_2008.ztd                             uca: 1AB14711 dated 25 December 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

1ab14711.uca date: Thu Dec 25 12:34:48 2008
No Errors or Warnings to show.
Animal Type: 1AB14711

Procompsognathus

Procompsognathus was named by Eberhard Fraas in 1913. He named the type
species, P. triassicus, on the basis of a poorly-preserved skeleton found in
Württemberg, Germany.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Deciduous Forest; Location: Europe; Era: Triassic
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 97.
Preferred shelter: Dinosaur Burrow (DD).
Animal can jump.
Animal can climb cliffs.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (7) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Wild Olive Tree, Elm Tree, Pacific Dogwood Tree, Cherry Tree, Maple Tree
Thornless Mesquite Tree, Birch Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Globe Willow Tree
Japanese Maple Tree, Deciduous Bush, Weeping Willow Tree, White Oak Tree
Thouarsus Cycad Tree (DD), Gingko Tree (DD), Glossopteris Tree (DD)
Leptocycas Tree (DD), Magnolia Tree (DD), Bonsai (CC), Snowbell Tree (CC)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Large Rock - 1, Large Rock - 2, Large Rock - 3, Large Rock - 4
Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small, Small Rock - 7, Small Rock - 8
Small Rock - 9, Stone Ruins, Deciduous Forest Rock - Formation
Rainforest Rock - Formation

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 1-3 with 40 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 80 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 80 grid squares):
60 Deciduous Floor, 4 Grass, 4 Rainforest Floor, 4 Fresh Water, 8 Dirt

Foliage (for exhibit with 80 grid squares):
4 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Magnolia Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 4 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 80 grid squares):
3 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.

Elevation: Of the 80 squares, 2 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.