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''"Archaeopteryx" vicensensis'' (Anon. ''fide'' Lambrecht, 1933) is a ''[[nomen nudum]]'' for what appears to be an undescribed pterosaur.
==Ancient environment==
The richness and diversity of the Solnhofen limestones in which all specimens of ''Archaeopteryx'' have been found had shed life on an ancient Jurassic Bavaria strikingly different from the present day. The latitude was similar to [[Florida]], though the climate was likely to have been drier as evidenced by fossils of plants with adaptations for arid conditions and lack of terrestrial sediments characteristic of rivers. Plants include [[cycad]]s and conifers while animals found include a large number of insects, small lizards, pterosaurs and ''[[Compsognathus]]''.<ref name="Chiappe07">{{cite book| last = Chiappe| first = Luis M.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title = Glorified Dinosaurs | publisher = UNSW Press| date = 2007| ___location = Sydney| pages = 118-146| url =| doi =| isbn = 0-471-24723-5}}</ref>
==Controversies==
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