Archaeopteryx: The World’s Most Famous Bird

Archaeopteryx: The World’s Most Famous Bird

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Solnhofen in the late Jurassic

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Solnhofen in the late Jurassic

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Archaeopteryx: The World’s Most Famous Bird

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Taking flight
  3. 3 The Solnhofen Limestone
  4. 4 Feather weather
  5. 5 Depositional setting
  6. 6 Toxic chemistry
  7. 7 Solnhofen in the late Jurassic
  8. 8 Shark Bay lagoonal analogue
  9. 9 Archaeopteryx fossils
  10. 10 Quilling news: the first leather (1861)
  11. 11 Knock me down with a leather
  12. 12 The London specimen: a bird in the hand (1861)
  13. 13 The Berlin specimen free as a bird (1875)
  14. 14 Maxberg Specimen (1956)
  15. 15 Munich Specimen (1992)
  16. 16 Taking the Bird: lumpers and splitters
  17. 17 Taphonomy: two birds with one stone
  18. 18 The final bird bath
  19. 19 Anatomy most fowl
  20. 20 Comparing Archaeopteryx and Dromaeosaurus
  21. 21 Bird brain
  22. 22 A bird in the hand...
  23. 23 Spread your wings
  24. 24 Caught with your pants down
  25. 25 Big bird: growth curves
  26. 26 Has the bird flown? Could Archaeopteryx fly?
  27. 27 Was Archovopteryx a blackbird?
  28. 28 Hunting... to eat like a bird
  29. 29 Flights of fancy-extending the Magpie analogue
  30. 30 Invertebrates
  31. 31 Spectacular pterosaurs
  32. 32 Summary
  33. 33 Thank you
  34. 34 References (3)

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