Species Profile
Archaeopteryx
Primitive bird
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Lived during Jurassic period.
Could glide but not true flight.
Key transitional fossil.
Size & Structure
01
Feathered wings
02
Long bony tail
03
Teeth in jaws
04
Clawed fingers
Archaeopteryx — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Moderately developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic (probable)
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Lungs
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Transitional evolutionary form
Early aerial adaptation
Predator of insects
Economic Importance
Evolutionary biology
Fossil studies
Museum importance