Re: 7 or 8 Archaeopteryx specimens?

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

"Jim" (EctoDino@aol.com) wrote:

> Hi, I'd like to know why the German website
> http://senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/sm/urvogel.htm omits the Solnhofen
> specimen, making a total of 7 Archie fossils.

And I wrote:

> Maybe it omits the Solnhofen specimen because some people (not many > 
> though) prefer to put in its own genus and species, _Jurapteryx > recurva_. 
>  Just a guess.

This is the Eichstatt specimen I believe (not the Solnhofen one), so ignore 
my reply.  The caffeine hadn't kicked in yet.  |-(
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