T. Michael Keesey wrote:
Didn't it live on islands?
Fossils of Archaeopteryx where found beside many delicately built pterosaurs and of course Compsognathus in Bavaria.
But this was the area where conditions for fossilizition at that time were very good.
Who knows where else Archaeopteryx lived? Perhaps this was only a small outpost for Archaeopteryx with the main population living under different conditions. Cheers Heinz Peter Bredow