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Archaeopteryx

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Archaeopteryx was named by Meyer (1861). It is the type genus of Archaeopterygidae, Archaeopteryginae.

It was corrected as Archeopteryx by Lambrecht (1933).

It was assigned to Saururae by Marsh (1880); to Saururae by Zittel (1890); to Archaeornithes by Gadow (1898); to Archornithes by Jaekel (1911); to Coelurosauria by Gauthier and Padian (1985); to Aves by Bakker (1986); to Archaeopteryginae by Paul (1988); to Coelurosauria by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Archaeopterygiformes by Chatterjee (1991); to Maniraptora by Holtz (1994); to Archosauria by Senter (2004); to Archaeopterygidae by Hay (1902), Petronievics (1927), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1960), Brodkorb (1978), Osmolska (1981), Carroll (1988), Ji and Ji (1997), Padian (2004) and Mayr et al. (2007); to Aves by Owen (1862), Owen (1864), Charig (1985), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Ji et al. (1999), Sereno (1999), Holtz (2000), Chiappe (2002), Rauhut (2003) and Chatterjee and Templin (2007); to Paraves by O'Connor and Sullivan (2014); to Aves by Gardiner (1982), Senter et al. (2004), O'Connor and Zelenkov (2013), Wang et al. (2014), Zhang et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2014), O'Connor et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2015) and Wang and Liu (2015); and to Avialae by Gauthier (1986), Perle et al. (1993), Norell and Clarke (2001), Maryanska et al. (2002), Ji and Ji (2007), Lee and Worthy (2011), Gianechini et al. (2011), Godefroit et al. (2013) and Kundrát et al. (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Archaeopteryx Meyer p. 679
1861Griphosaurus Wagner
1862Archeopteryx Owen p. 273
1864Archeopteryx Owen p. 33
1880Archaeopteryx Marsh p. 187
1890Archaeopteryx Zittel p. 820
1898Archaeopteryx Gadow p. 30
1902Archaeopteryx Hay p. 518
1911Archaeopteryx Jaekel p. 170
1917Archaeornis Petronievics
1927Archaeopteryx Petronievics p. 18
1927Archaeornis Petronievics p. 18
1930Archaeopteryx Hay p. 276
1933Archeopteryx Lambrecht p. 79
1933Archaeornis Lambrecht p. 80
1960Archaeopteryx Wetmore p. 3
1960Archaeornis Wetmore p. 3
1978Archaeopteryx Brodkorb p. 218
1981Archaeopteryx Osmolska p. 92
1982Archaeopteryx Gardiner p. 229
1985Archaeopteryx Charig p. 27
1985Archaeopteryx Gauthier and Padian p. 190 fig. 2
1985Jurapteryx Howgate p. 111
1986Archaeopteryx Bakker p. 460
1986Archaeopteryx Gauthier p. 1108
1988Archaeopteryx Carroll
1988Archaeopteryx Paul p. 352
1989Archaeopteryx Gauthier et al. p. 348
1991Archaeopteryx Chatterjee p. 326
1993Archaeopteryx Perle et al. p. 623
1994Archaeopteryx Holtz
1997Archaeopteryx Ji and Ji p. 41 fig. 3
1997Archaeopteryx Sereno p. 444
1998Archaeopteryx Sereno p. 65
1999Archaeopteryx Ji et al. p. 5
1999Archaeopteryx Sereno p. 2139 fig. 2
2000Archaeopteryx Holtz, Jr. p. 13 fig. 5
2001Archaeopteryx Norell and Clarke p. 183
2002Archaeopteryx Chiappe p. 451 fig. 20.1
2002Archaeopteryx Maryanska et al. p. 101 fig. 1
2003Archaeopteryx Rauhut p. 23
2004Archaeopteryx Padian p. 211
2004Archaeopteryx Senter p. 260
2004Archaeopteryx Senter et al. p. 2 fig. 2
2007Archaeopteryx Chatterjee and Templin p. 1577 fig. 4
2007Archaeopteryx Ji and Ji p. 341
2007Archaeopteryx Mayr et al. p. 100
2011Archaeopteryx Gianechini et al. p. 284
2011Archaeopteryx Lee and Worthy p. 3
2013Archaeopteryx Godefroit et al.
2013Archaeopteryx O'Connor and Zelenkov
2014Archaeopteryx O'Connor et al.
2014Archaeopteryx O'Connor and Sullivan
2014Archaeopteryx Wang et al.
2014Archaeopteryx Wang et al.
2014Archaeopteryx Zhang et al.
2015Archaeopteryx Wang and Liu
2015Archaeopteryx Wang et al.
2019Archaeopteryx Kundrát et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Avialae
genusArchaeopteryx

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Archaeopteryx Meyer 1861
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†Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi Kundrát et al. 2019 [Ancient bird]
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Invalid names: Archaeopteryx bavarica Wellnhofer 1993 [synonym], Archaeopteryx macrura Owen 1862 [synonym], Archaeopteryx oweni Petronievics 1921 [synonym], Archaeornis siemensii Dames 1897 [synonym], Griphosaurus problematicus Woodward 1862 [synonym], Pterodactylus crassipes Meyer 1857 [synonym], Wellnhoferia grandis Elzanowski 2001 [synonym]
Invalid names: Archaeornis Petronievics 1917 [synonym], Griphosaurus Wagner 1861 [synonym], Jurapteryx Howgate 1985 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. Chatterjee 1991Apomorphous characters of Archaeopteryx
(9) Teeth present in premaxilla, maxilla and dentary; tooth rows terminate in front of antorbital fenestra.