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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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... with reference to reptiles is also applicable to birds. The first traces of them are found in the ornithichnites of the new red sandstone, and the first fossil—Archaeopteryx, in the Solenhofen strata, belonging to the Oolite. From the nature of the case the remains are necessarily scanty, since birds would be less exposed than other animals to those casualties which would lead ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland


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


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