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ARCHAEOPTERYX lithographica |
| DESCRIBER | Von Meyer,1861 |
| TIME | Jurassic
Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian |
| CLASSIFICATION | Archaeopterygiformes Archaeopterygidae |
| DIET | |
| FOSSILSITE | Solnhofen Formation, Germany |
| LENGTH | 0.6 meter |
| INFO | Owen, R. (1863) On the Archaeopteryx von Meyer,
with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species
from the lithographic stone of Solnhofen. Phil. Trans. 153:
33-47; London [First description of the "London specimen" housed in
the Natural Histoty Museum]
Dames, W. (1884) Ueber Archaeopteryx Palaeontologische Abhandlungen, 2 (3): 119-198; Berlin [Description of the "Berlin specimen" in the Naturkundemuseum of Humbolt University, Berlin] Heller, F. (1959) Ein dritter Archaeopteryx Fund aus den Solnhofener Plattenkalken von Langenaltheim/Mfr. Erlanger Geologische Abhandlungen, 31: 1-25; Erlangen [Description of the "Maxberg specimen" (private collection)] Wellnhofer, P. (1974) Das fnfte Skelettexemplar von Archaeopteryx. Palaeontographica Abt. A Vol. 147 S.~168-216, 4~Taf., 13~Abb., 2~Tab.Stuttgart [Description of the "Eichstatt specimen" in the Jura Museum in Eichstatt, Bavaria Wellnhofer, P. (1988) Ein neues Exemplar von Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx 6: 1-30 [Eichstatt description of the "Solnhofen specimen" in the Brgemeister Mller Museum in Solnhofen. Meyer H. von (1859/1860): Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Vierte Abt.: Reptilien aus dem lithographischen Schiefer des Jura in Deutschland und Frankreich. 1-84(1859), 85-144(1860), Frankfurt [Description of Pterodactylus crassipes, later to be recognized as Archaeopteryx, the "Haarlem specimen" by J.H Ostrom Ostrom, J.H. (1972) Description of the Archaeopteryx specimen in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem. Proceedings of the Koninlijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B, 75: 289-305; Amsterdam [Description of the "Haarlem specimen"] |
