Archaeopteryx

... that that the earliest birds probably had a lot more in common with dinosaurs than with modern birds. For example, no modern bird has teeth, but Archaeopteryx did. I see no reason why this thigh and hip anatomy would not have evolved later, after birds had diverged from dinosaurs.

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... the earliest birds derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. The earliest known species of class Aves is Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the Late Jurassic period, though Archaepteryx is not commonly considered to have been a true bird. ============================================================================== ...

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I think the bird you are trying to name is Archaeopteryx, one of the first link between reptiles and modern birds and its fossils have been found in New Zealand.

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... the former nor the latter has enough support from genetics, considering the information criteria. The cranial endocast studies conducted in Archaeopteryx fossil revealed that it was a completely developed Ave, fully capable of flight and well developed avian model circulatory and nervous ...

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... the former nor the latter has enough support from genetics, considering the information criteria. The cranial endocast studies conducted in Archaeopteryx fossil revealed that it was a completely developed Ave, fully capable of flight and well developed avian model circulatory and nervous ...

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