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Paper, 'On the fossil remains of a long-tailed bird (Archeopteryx macrurus, Ow.), from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen' by Prof [Richard] Owen

Reference number: PT/68/2

Date: 1862

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Refers to Solenhofen in Bavaria, Germany.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the archeopteryx of von Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen'.

Received by the Royal Society on 6 November 1862. Read 20 November 1862.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 12, 1863.

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PT/68/2
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1862
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56 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Paper, 'On the fossil remains of a long-tailed bird (Archeopteryx macrurus, Ow.), from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen' by Prof [Richard] Owen, 1862, PT/68/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_68_2/paper-on-the-fossil-remains-of-a-long-tailed-bird-archeopteryx-macrurus-ow-from-the-lithographic-stone-of-solenhofen-by-prof-richard-owen, accessed on 15 October 2024

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