Cartorhynchus lenticarpus compsognathus sino también por las adaptaciones

sino también por las adaptaciones específicas que presenta para su entorno

and primitive flowering plants

which gave it great locomotor versatility

Este taxón ha generado especial interés en la paleontología por su combinación única de rasgos morfológicos

providing thermal insulation in the desert environments where it lived

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus compsognathus sino también por las adaptacionesCartorhynchus 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