362 SAURCR^. 



radial and an ulnar ossification. The slight development of the 

 delto-pectoral crest of the humerus apparently indicates feehle 

 powers of flight. 



Family ARCH^OPTERYGID^. 

 Genus ARCH-ffiOPTERYX, Meyer'. 

 The only known representative of the order. 



Archaeopteryx lithographica, Meyer*. 



Syn. Archceopteryx macrurus, Owen ^. Arcli(eopteryx macrura, Owen *. 



The type and only named species. There is no evidence to 

 justify the specific separation of the skeleton on which A. macrura 

 was founded from the feather on the evidence of which A. litho- 

 graphica was established. 



Hah. Europe (Bavaria). 



37001. A split slab of limestone, showing the nearly entire skeleton 

 {Fig.) and impressions of the feathers ; from the Lower Kimerid- 

 gian of Eichstiidt, near Solenhof en, Bavaria. This specimen, 

 which was discovered in 1861, is described and figured by 

 Owen in the « Phil. Trans.' for 1863, p. 33, pi. i., pi. iii. 

 fig. 1, and pi. iv. figs. 1 , 7, 8, as A. macrura, of which it 

 is the type. In this description the skeleton is stated to 

 be lying on its back, whereas it really rests on the ventral 

 aspect ^ The presence of a cast of part of the brain- 

 cavity and of a fragment of a jaw containing four teeth 

 was pointed out by J. Evans in the ' Nat. Hist. Eev.' 1865, 

 pp. 415-425. The bone described by Owen as the 

 furcula is regarded by Vogt (see ' Ibis,' 1830, p. 439) as 

 a pubis. This, which is one of the most valuable speci- 

 mens in the Museum, was first described and figured by 

 H.Woodward in the ' Intellectual Observer,' 1862, pp. 313 

 -319, and pi. ; having been previously noticed by Wagner 

 in the ' SB. bay. Ak.' 1861, i. p. 153, as Griphosaurus. 

 In Woodward's paper the names Griphosaurus problema- 

 ticus, Wag., and Gripliornis longicaudatus, Owen, occur 

 as ]\fS. ones. The Berlin specimen (of which the skuU is 

 represented in fig. 73) has been described by Seeley in the 

 ' (ieol. Mag.' 1888, p. 300, and by Dames in the ' Pal. 

 Abhandl.' vol. ii. (1884) ; it supplements the present one in 

 the perfect preservation of the skull and teeth. 



Hdherlein Collection. Purchased, 1862. 



' Neues Jabrb. 1861, p. 679. ^ Loc. cit. 



' Proc. Roy. Soc. vol. xii. p. 272 (1862). ■* Phil. Trans, for 1863, p. 33 (1864). 

 ^ See DoUo, Rev. Quest. Scientifiques, 1889, pp. 433-434, for a summary o( 

 tine observatious regarding this point. 



