Re: Archie questions

[Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-24 02:42:03 EDT, cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au
writes:

<< Petronievics assigned the name _Archaeopteryx oweni_ to the London specimen
for no readily apparent reason (according the De Beer 1954).  He later
 corrected this and referred to the London speciman as _A. lithographica_ in
 1927. >>

He may still have been under the impression (sorry about the pun) that the
type specimen of _A. lithographica_ was the feather, not the London skeleton,
and thus gave the skeleton a new name. Can't confirm this, however, since my
reference library isn't with me yet.