Archaeopteryx
genus of early bird-like dinosaur
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Summary
Archaeopteryx is a fossil taxon[1]. Archaeopteryx ranks in the top 0.16% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,139 views/month, #16 of 9,701).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Carl Friedrich Häberlein[3]
- Taxon rank: genus[4]
- Parent taxon: Archaeopterygidae[5]
- Location of discovery: Germany[6]
- Taxon name: Archaeopteryx[7]
- Commons category: Archaeopteryx[8]
- Temporal range start: Tithonian[9]
- Temporal range end: Tithonian[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1861[11]
- Start time: -150800000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12]
- End time: -148500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Archaeopteryx[14]
- Commons gallery: Archaeopteryx[15]
- Main food source: carnivore[16]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], Otto's encyclopedia[20], The American Cyclopædia[21], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[22]
- Taxon common name: 始祖鳥[23]
- Different from: Archaeopteris[24]
- Length: 0.5 m[25]
- Time period: Late Jurassic[26]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
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Identifiers
Archaeopteryx's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 490944[28]. Archaeopteryx's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4433761[29]. Archaeopteryx's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4847896[30].
Why It Matters
Archaeopteryx has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Archaeopteryx is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]