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Hanneke Meijer wrote-
The other day I was talking to a collegue at the Naturalis Museum in Leiden
about Archaeopteryx. He told me that he read somewhere ( I don't know where)
that Archie's body measured 47 mm without the head and the tail. Can
someone tell me if this is true, because it seems very small to me.
So we're only measuring the neck, back and sacrum
here, right? This is really only possible to measure in the Eichstatt and
Berlin specimens, which gives us lengths of 114.5 mm and 179 mm
respectively. It seems you are correct in thinking the 47 mm figure was
too small.
Mickey Mortimer
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