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    Archaeopteryx (/ˌɑːrkiːˈɒptərɪks/; lit. 'old-wing'), sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel" (lit. Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like...
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    Archaeopteryx fossils from the quarries of Solnhofen limestone represent the most famous and well-known fossils from this area. They are highly significant...
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    in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany. Birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs share many unique...
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    skeleton), and a well-preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx. The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy...
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    preceding centuries incorrectly labelling them as the closest relative of Archaeopteryx. Compsognathus is known from two almost complete skeletons. The German...
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    also plate V. On p. 679, Meyer named Archaeopteryx: "Zur Bezeichnung des Thieres halte ich die Benennung Archaeopteryx lithographica geeignet." (For the...
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    subsequently yielded spectacular finds, including Archaeopteryx, commemorated in the bird's full name Archaeopteryx lithographica. All 13 known specimens have...
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  • broad-based reviews of the osteology and phylogeny of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx appeared in 1976. Ostrom lived to see the eventual discovery of feathered...
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    Solnhofen Plattenkalk include the early feathered theropod dinosaur Archaeopteryx preserved in such detail that they are among the most famous and most...
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  • show's premiere highlighted Dinosaurs' connection to Jim Henson, who had died the year before. Henson conceived the show in 1988, according to an article...
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    biological class, Aves. For more than a century, the small theropod dinosaur Archaeopteryx lithographica from the Late Jurassic period was considered to have been...
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    pull the head and tail back. Ornithomimus Struthiomimus Gorgosaurus Archaeopteryx Messelornis Sapeornis Scipionyx Camarasaurus Shenzhousaurus Dinosaurs...
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    Birds are descendants of the primitive avialans (whose members include Archaeopteryx) which first appeared during the Late Jurassic. According to recent...
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    dinosaur, is usually considered to be a synonym of Microraptor. Like Archaeopteryx, well-preserved fossils of Microraptor provide important evidence about...
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  • Dino Quiz Book (1995) The Puzzle of the Dinosaur-Bird: The Story of Archaeopteryx (1996) What the Dinosaurs Saw (1998) Hello, Hello! (2002) Little Raccoon's...
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    Although considered to be birds (i.e. members of the clade Aves), Archaeopteryx and other extinct groups are not included in the crown group, as they...
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    Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany. An eighth, fragmentary specimen of Archaeopteryx was discovered in the late 1980s in the somewhat younger sediments at...
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    attached in life. Overall, this feather pattern looks very much like Archaeopteryx. The first known dromaeosaurid with definitive evidence of feathers...
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    primitive and advanced features. As in more primitive avialans like Archaeopteryx, they retained several separate cranial bones, small premaxillae (bones...
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  • reached Earth only when the solar wind had minimum power. Two fossil Archaeopteryx were man-made fakes. The theory of abiogenic petroleum, held by Hoyle...
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    that, apart from its hands and feathers, Archaeopteryx was quite similar to Compsognathus. Thus Archaeopteryx represents a transitional fossil. In 1868...
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    Plattenkalk (Jurassic limestone). On the Blumenberg the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx was found by Jakob Niemeyer. St. Willibald founded the Diocese of Eichstätt...
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    exception of the crushed and hard to interpret skulls of Compsognathus and Archaeopteryx. Currently the skull is housed at the Natural History Museum, where...
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  • specimen of the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx, the Maxberg specimen. The so-called Maxberg specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica has been discovered...
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    well as the earliest bird after Archaeopteryx. It was also considered to be only slightly younger than Archaeopteryx – the Yixian Formation, the rock...
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    and all large saurischian dinosaurs; maniraptorans Conchoraptor and Archaeopteryx had very similar proportions. This lends further support to the idea...
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  • develops a dental notation system. August 15 – First description of Archaeopteryx, based on a feather found in Bavaria; in September the first complete...
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    of a trace – a putative first pterosaur from the Ettling locality". Archaeopteryx. 37: 75–83. Broili, F. (1927). "Ein Exemplar von Rhamphorhynchus mit...
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  • pianist and an excellent tennis player. JPL · 9859 9860 Archaeopteryx 1991 PW9 Archaeopteryx, the early bird that had a dinosaur-like skeleton. JPL ·...
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    Frankenalb (Sueddeutschland): Skelettanatomie und Weichteilbefunde". Archaeopteryx. 24: 1–26. Xu, X. (2006). "Scales, feathers, and dinosaurs". "Nature"...
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