I have managed to get decent pictures of nearly every Archaeopteryx specimen on here at one time or another. For those who have missed out, there’s Daiting, Eichstaett, London, Bergermeister-Mueller, Thermopolis, the ‘new’ specimen, the ‘chicken wing’ (and a couple of others), and various ones in UV. One that has done badly as it were, is Berlin. The most famous of the lot and to date all I have shown is a grainy old image from when the leg feathers were still present. Finally though, here is a good quality photo of the whole thing.
Sadly for me, it’s not because I have been back to Berlin where this is now permanently on public display, but comes courtesy of Heinrich Mallison who kindly took this for me.
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Dave “stealing” my photos (he asked very nicely, and I won’t get around to a good Archie post soon anyways).
That’s not the holotype, right? This seems to be the most famous specimen whenever Archaeopteryx is shown.
No the London specimen was recently designated as the holotype. Before that it was the isolated feather.
Dave, pls remind me why the London specimen was chosen for the lectotype rather than the Berlin one. They’re both lovely but to my untrained eyes, the Berlin specimen appears to be more complete.
I don’t know the details not having the exact case files, but well the London one does have some historical presecedent having been described in detail first. And it does have a better skull with the braincase preserved. I’d agree the Berlin one looks better, but it’s also fragile and has suffered some damage so it’s a bit of a 50:50.
You can, just about, see the leg feathers. They’re nowhere near as good as they used to be, but they’re still visible by the tibulofibia.
Unless they’re preparation marks…
Yes Dave, looks like some of them are still present, though rather less than there used to be sadly.