Archaeornis Petronievics in Petronievics & Woodward, 1917
Archaeornis Petronievics in Petronievics & Woodward, 1917
(Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1917, 5 (note). NcZ)
"ancient bird"
AHR-kee-OR-nis (Gr. arkhaios "ancient" + Gr. ornis "bird") (m)
name proposed for the "Berlin specimen," found at Eichstдtt; described as representing
a genus supposedly distinct from the London specimen of Archaeopteryx.
Reseachers now think Archaeopteryx had indeterminate growth more typical of reptiles,
rather than the combination of rapid juvenile growth with a fixed adult size characteristic
of modern birds, and that the minor differences between the London and Berlin specimens
do not merit taxonomic separation.
[= Archaeopteryx von Meyer, 1861]
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