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Fig. 246. The skeletons of various saurischian dinosaurs. 

 (Modified after various authors.) 



16. Order *Saurischia 



These include forms with a triradiate pelvis, very like that of the 

 pseudosuchians. The earlier types, like their ancestors, were bipedal 

 carnivores of no great size, such as *Compsognathus from the Jurassic 



