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📚 noun • entry_id 52401

archeopteryx

/ɑɹkiˈɒptəɹɪks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
archaeopteryx • arqueoptérix
A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, sca…
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