. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Fig. 87.—Diagrammatic sketch of the fossil lizard-tailed bird, Archxo-pteryx macrura, from the Lithographic Stone (Upper Jurassic) ofEichsfadt, Bavaria ; about one-quarter nat. size. a, acetabulum;b, cast of brain-cavity of skull; c, ribs ; cr, carpals ; /, femur ; fii, fur-cula; h, humerus; i, ischium ; mt, tarsometatarsus ; p, phalanges offoot; r, radius; sc, scapula ; t, tibia ; u, ulna ; 1, 2, phalanges of hand.(Table-case 1.
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Fig. 87.—Diagrammatic sketch of the fossil lizard-tailed bird, Archxo-pteryx macrura, from the Lithographic Stone (Upper Jurassic) ofEichsfadt, Bavaria ; about one-quarter nat. size. a, acetabulum;b, cast of brain-cavity of skull; c, ribs ; cr, carpals ; /, femur ; fii, fur-cula; h, humerus; i, ischium ; mt, tarsometatarsus ; p, phalanges offoot; r, radius; sc, scapula ; t, tibia ; u, ulna ; 1, 2, phalanges of hand.(Table-case ) GUIDE FOSS. MAMM. AND BIRDS. PLATE VI. If? f. >.^f#? ,^*j V^^^ Fossil Ijizard-tailed Bird, Arclixoptenjxviacniru, from the Lithographic Stone (UpperJurassic) of Eichstiidt, Bavaria; about ono-quarter uat. size. (Table-case IS.) [To face p. 94. AVES. 95 between the wiugs ; and the hind leg is exactly that of a Table-ease perching bird. The long tail, however, comprises a row of twenty slender vertebrse, each bearing a pair of feathers. Owing to the fine grain of the stone, the feathers both of the wings and the tail are perfectly displayed in impressions, which were made when the actual feathers were originally buried in the soft limy mud. Of the second specimen of the Arc]iBeo])ie)ijx, now in theBerlin Museum, a plaster cast is placed next to the firstexample in Table-case 13. It retains the head, which isquite bird-sliaped, though its jaws are provided with teeth
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