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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genus Archaeopteryx, the term can refer to the following subjects: Specimens of Archaeopteryx 9860 Archaeopteryx - a main belt asteroid Archaeopteryx (software)...
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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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The Ruppert Archaeopteryx (English: ancient wing) is a Swiss high-wing, pod-and-boom, single-seat, microlift glider that was designed by Roger Ruppert...
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Wellnhoferia (redirect from Archaeopteryx grandis)
closely related to Archaeopteryx. It lived in what is now Germany, during the Late Jurassic. While Wellnhoferia was similar to Archaeopteryx, it had a shorter...
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Transitional fossil (section Archaeopteryx)
theory of descent with modification through natural selection. Indeed, Archaeopteryx was discovered just two years later, in 1861, and represents a classic...
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though alternative definitions are occasionally used (see below). Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the late Jurassic Period Solnhofen Formation of...
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debate about whether the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, could fly. It appears that Archaeopteryx had the avian brain structures and inner-ear balance...
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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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aerodynamics of avian flight. Even after the discovery of the ancestral bird Archaeopteryx which lived over 150 million years ago, debates still persist regarding...
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Archaeopteryx is an interactive computer software program, written in Java, for viewing, editing, and analyzing phylogenetic trees. This type of program...
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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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Europe. In most current classifications, it contains only the genera Archaeopteryx and Wellnhoferia. As its name suggests, Protarchaeopteryx was also once...
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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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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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vertebrata, including the Triassic predator Teratosaurus, the earliest bird Archaeopteryx lithographica (1861), the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, and the prosauropod...
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PMID 17842432. S2CID 32015255. —— (1988). "Ein neuer Exemplar von Archaeopteryx". Archaeopteryx. 6: 1–30. Schweitzer, Mary H.; Watt, J.A.; Avci, R.; et al....
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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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found to date. The fossil evidence for the animal pre-dates that of Archaeopteryx lithographica, often considered the earliest bird species, by about...
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Birds are descendants of the primitive avialans (whose members include Archaeopteryx) which first appeared during the Late Jurassic. According to some estimates...
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(translation by Jacques Gauthier). This distinguishes the group from Archaeopteryx, which Haeckel placed in another new group called Sauriurae. Said simply...
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The Granger Archaeopteryx is a British single-engined, tailless parasol monoplane designed and built in the late 1920s by two brothers, R.F.T. and R.J...
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Natural History Museum, Berlin (section Archaeopteryx)
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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Deinonychus, which are remarkably similar in form to the oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx), the bird-like troodontids and oviraptorosaurs, the ornithomimosaurs...
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small feathered dinosaur that lived in an arboreal environment. Like Archaeopteryx it had long forelimbs. Its femur was longer than its humerus, 84 mm...
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that some of the smaller Jurassic theropods had many similarities to Archaeopteryx and modern birds, he determined that they were unlikely to be direct...
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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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like Sinovenator, demonstrate striking anatomical similarities with Archaeopteryx and primitive dromaeosaurids, and demonstrate that they are relatives...
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It had a wing loading of 0.15 lb/sqft, or 0.73 kg/m2. The Ruppert Archaeopteryx has a certified stall speed of 30–39 kilometres per hour (19–24 mph)...
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