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