Archaeopteryx London Specimen Iguanodon Each foot had 5 short

Each foot had 5 short toes

Olive Hill Formation

It had 17-inch (43 cm) spikes extending from its vertebrae

measuring upwards of 16 inches (41 cm) in length

Archaeopteryx London Specimen Iguanodon Each foot had 5 shortFound in 1861, near Langenaltheim. Probably the best known (together with the Berlin specimen). Its discovery was announced by H. v Meyer in 1861 and the specimen was subsequently bought by the British Museum of Natural History in London (under the instruction of Richard Owen). It cost 700 UK Pounds a small fortune in those times, but for that price Owen also received just over a thousand other fossils from Solnhofen. The specimen was sold by amateur