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ABOUT twenty years ago two fossil animals of great interest were found in the lithographic slates of Bavaria. One was the skeleton of Archœopteryx, now in the British Museum, and the other was the Compsognathus preserved in the Royal Museum at Munich. A single feather, to which the name Archœopteryx was first applied by Von Meyer, had previously been discovered at the same locality. More recently another skeleton has been brought to light in the same beds, and is now in the Museum of Berlin. These three specimens of Archœopteryx are the only remains of this genus known, while of Compsognathus the original skeleton is, up to the present time, the only representative.
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Jurassic Birds and their Allies 1 . Nature 25, 22–23 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025022a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/025022a0