"Archaeopteryx; bird or reptile, or both?"

Message 1: is archaeopteryx a...... valid example of a transitional fossil?in a recent debate i was in. i was requested to provide a transitional fossil. and i used an archaeopteryx.my creationist apponent was still unreasonable and without a clue.

It has a jaw with reptillian teeth, absent beak, a long bony tail, a neck that attaches to skull from rear (like dinosaurs) instead of from below (like birds), a flat breastbone, stomach ribs, reptilian vertebrae, unfused wristbones (birds have fused ones), unfused ankle bones (ditto), sacrum occupies only 6 vertebrae (half the minimum for birds), and (my personal favorite) three bony claws jutting out from the middle of each wing. These are reptillian characteristics, not bird ones.