Thecodontion - Procompsognathus triassicus (Death, Asymmetric and Grotesque) Lyrics


Ground dwelling coelophysid theropod, small sized

its name given by Fraas, before elegant jaws

the tibia longer than the femur, habits cursorial

large clawed hands, stiff tail, good runner

Discovered in the quarry of the Stubensandstein

in white sandstone and blue marl sediments

The fossils of its ilk were mostly found the same way

haphazard bone position, angular asymmetric limbs

Its neck bent unnaturally backwards, grotesque

during its last spasms of agony, before death