Editing Compsognathus (section)

===Integument===
[[File:Compsognathus BW.jpg|thumb|Evidence from related species suggests that the body might have been covered with feather-like structures.]]
Some relatives of ''Compsognathus'', namely ''[[Sinosauropteryx]]'' and ''[[Sinocalliopteryx]]'', have been preserved with the remains of simple feathers covering the body like fur,<ref name="Currie2001"/> prompting some scientists to suggest that ''Compsognathus'' might have been feathered in a similar way.<ref name="jietal2007">{{cite journal | last1 = Ji | first1 = S. | last2 = Ji | first2 = Q. | last3 = Lu | first3 = J. | last4 = Yuan | first4 = C. | year = 2007 | title = A new giant compsognathid dinosaur with long filamentous integuments from Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern China | journal = Acta Geologica Sinica | volume = 81 | issue = 1| pages = 8–15 }}</ref> Consequently, many depictions of ''Compsognathus'' show them with coverings of downy proto-feathers. However, no feathers or feather-like covering have been preserved with ''Compsognathus'' fossils, in contrast to ''Archaeopteryx'', which are found in the same sediments. Karin Peyer, in 2006, reported skin impressions preserved on the side of the tail starting at the 13th tail vertebra. The impressions showed small bumpy tubercles, similar to the scales found on the tail and hind legs of ''[[Juravenator]]''.<ref name=peyer2006>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[879:AROCFT]2.0.CO;2 | last1 = Peyer | first1 = K. | year = 2006 | title = A reconsideration of ''Compsognathus'' from the Upper Tithonian of Canjuers, southeastern France | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 26 | issue = 4| pages = 879–896 | s2cid = 86338296 }}</ref> Additional scales had in 1901 been reported by Von Huene, in the abdominal region of the German ''Compsognathus'', but Ostrom subsequently disproved this interpretation;<ref name=ostrom78/><ref name="Huene01">{{cite journal |last= von Huene|first= F.|year=1901|title= Der vermuthliche Hautpanzer des "Compsognathus longipes" Wagner |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie |volume= 1|pages=157–160}}</ref> in 2012, Achim Reisdorf postulated that they are plaques of [[adipocere]], corpse wax.<ref name=reisdorf2012>{{cite journal | last1 = Reisdorf | first1 = A.G. | last2 = Wuttke | first2 = M. | year = 2012 | title = Re-evaluating Moodie's Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in fossil vertebrates. Part I: Reptiles – The taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs ''Compsognathus longipes'' and ''Juravenator starki'' from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany) | journal = Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | volume = 92 | issue = 1| pages = 119–168 | doi = 10.1007/s12549-011-0068-y | s2cid = 129785393 }}</ref>

Like ''Compsognathus'', and unlike ''Sinosauropteryx'', a patch of fossilized skin from the tail and hindlimb of the possible relative ''[[Juravenator starki]]'' shows mainly scales, though there is some indication that simple feathers were also present in the preserved areas.<ref name=Goehlich2006>{{cite journal | last1 = Goehlich | first1 = U.B. | last2 = Tischlinger | first2 = H. | last3 = Chiappe | first3 = L.M. | year = 2006 | title = ''Juraventaor starki'' (Reptilia, Theropoda) ein nuer Raubdinosaurier aus dem Oberjura der Suedlichen Frankenalb (Sueddeutschland): Skelettanatomie und Wiechteilbefunde | journal = Archaeopteryx | volume = 24 | pages = 1–26 }}</ref> This may mean that a feather covering was not ubiquitous in this group of dinosaurs, or maybe that some species had fewer feathers than others.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Xu|first= Xing |year=2006|title= Palaeontology: Scales, feathers and dinosaurs |journal=Nature |volume= 440|issue=7082|pages=287–8 |doi=10.1038/440287a |pmid= 16541058 |bibcode = 2006Natur.440..287X |s2cid= 28376204 |doi-access= free }}</ref>