A) King crab
B) Sphenodon
C) Archaeopteryx
D) Peripatus
Correct Answer: C
Solution :
Archaeopteryx lithographica is not a living fossil. It is a fossil bird that lived in Jurassic period about 180 million years ago. Its fossil displays the characters of both reptiles (e.g., long tail, bones not pneumatic, jaws with teeth, fingers terminating into claw, presence of weak sternum, free caudal vertebra etc.) and birds (e.g.. Presence of feathers, jaws modified into beak, fore limbs modified into wings, intimate fusion of skull bones etc.) King krab, Sphenodon and Peripatus are the living fossils.
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