Re: questions

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

> to whom it may concern:
> could someone out there please send me the latest information on research
> of the archeaopteryx? anything you could give me would be appreciated!

     The length of the list of Archaeopteryx references is absolutely 
appalling, one reason I didn't research it for the DinoPages web site.  
Here are a few.  The first is a book, the rest are papers in journals:
 
The Beginnings of Birds, ed. M.K. Hecht, J.H. Ostrom, G. Viohl, and 
     P.Wellnhoffer.  Eichstatt: Freunde des Jura-Meuseums Eichstatt, 1985. 

Feduccia, A. 1993. Evidence from claw geometry indicating arboreal habits 
     in Archaeopteryx.  Science 259, pp. 790-793

Feduccia and Tordoff, 1979. Feathers of Archaeopteryx: Assymetric vanes 
     indicate aerodynamic function. Science 203, pp. 1021-1022.
  
Jenkins, F.A. Jr. 1993. The Evolution of the Avian Shoulder Joint.  American 
      Journal of Science, 293(A) pp. 253-267

Rayner, J.M.V. 1988. The evolution of vertebrate flight.  Biological 
     Journal of the Linnaean Society.  34, pp. 269-287 

Vazquez, R. J., 1992 Functional Osteology of the avian wrist and the 
      evolution of flapping flight.  Journal of morphology 211, pp. 
     259-268   
 
     There is another collection of papers called "Papers on avian 
evolution in honor or Kurt Bordkorb" or soemthing like that.  Someone 
else might have the references.

LN Jeff 0-
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