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Archaeopteryx   Listen
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Archaeopteryx  n.  (Paleon.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.






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... shew that among the innumerable known forms there were three grades of structure. The lowest had already been recognised and named by Haeckel; it consisted of the Saururae, or reptile-like, birds, and contained a single fossil form, Archaeopteryx, distinguished from all living birds by the presence of a hand-like wing in which the metacarpal bones were well developed and freely movable, and by the possession of a long lizard-like tail actually exceeding ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... Record. Intercalation of newly discovered Formation of intermediate Age in the chronological Series. Reference of the St. Cassian Beds to the Triassic Periods. Discovery of new organic Types. Feathered Archaeopteryx ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Archaeopteryx" :   genus Archeopteryx, archeopteryx, genus Archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx lithographica, bird



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