RE: Archaeopteryx feathers and taphonomy.

["Cunningham, Betty" <Cunningham@sega.com>]

George Olshevsky writes (quoting Paul Davis):

>> 2. ALL the specimens of Archaeopteryx (both species) have feathers
>> preserved even the partially disarticulated ones
>
>I was not completely certain that this was the case, just off the
>top of my head. But I noted that most of them were feathered.

except for the Archie that was originally identified as a Compy-which   
showed NO feathers-that Dr. Ostrom recently ID'd correctly by comparisons   
of the bones of other Archies (wasn't it something like 27 points of   
similarity?-I have no refs for this).  So, to intial examination, earlier   
paleontologists thought as you did.....small theropod from the Solnhofen   
WITH feathers-ARCHIE: small theropod from the Solnhofen WITHOUT   
feathers-COMPY.
Seems it  would just be up to conditions of the fossilization to decide   
which are Archie and which are Compy from this discription, now doesn't   
it?

 -Betty Cunningham