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Question
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Archaeopteryx is

  • a living fossil

  • a mammal

  • a connecting link between Annelida and Arthropoda

  • a connecting link between reptiles and birds

Solution

D.

a connecting link between reptiles and birds

Archaeopteryx (lizard bird) is a prin itive fossil bird, which existed on earth about some 150 million years back. It is a connecting link between reptiles and birds. 

It characteristic feature are wings, feather, prolonged beak (birds), teeth in beak, keetless-sternum, long tail with unfused vertebrae, pygostyle absent, separate digits of wings and claws on fingers (reptiles).