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First Fossil Feather Ever Found Belonged to Archaeopteryx | Paleontology – Sci-News.com
Renowned as the first fossil feather ever known, the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather found in the Jurassic limestone deposits of Solnhofen, Germany…
Renowned as the first fossil feather ever known, the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather found in the Jurassic limestone deposits of Solnhofen, Germany, in 1861 is an upper major primary covert of Archaeopteryx, according to new research.
Left: optical photograph of the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather of Archaeopteryx. Scale bar – 5 mm. Upper right: the Berlin skeletal specimen of Archaeopteryx. Scale bar – 5 cm. Bottom right: a wing of Archaeopteryx; black represents uppe…
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