Bird
Archaeopteryx
It had feathers, teeth, fingers with claws and a long bony tail.
Archaeopteryx combined feathers with teeth, claws and a long, bony tail.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Archaeopteryx at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Archaeopterygidae
- Archaeopterygids
- Fossil locations
- Germany
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Archaeopteryx
It lived in a Europe made up of islands surrounded by tropical seas. Its fossils were fundamental to study the transition between other dinosaurs and birds.
That combination made it an important piece for studying the kinship of birds. Evolution can preserve old traits along with new ones within the same animal.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Archaeopteryx
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- Archaeopteryx
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- Archaeopterygidae
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Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.
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