Wintershof-Ost Quarry, Eichstätt (Solnhofen) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.9° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras hybonotum ammonoid zone, Solnhofen Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

• Plattenkalk limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Jura Museum Eichstatt (JME)

Primary reference: G. Bechly, A. Nel, X. Martínez-Declòs, E. A. Jarzembowski, R. Coram, D. Martill, G. Fleck, F. Escuillié, M. M. Wisshak and M. Maisch. 2001. A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 4:1-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105798: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2011, edited by Jered Karr and Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Cymatophlebiidae
Cymatophlebia longialata Germar 1839 true dragonfly
JME W.h.O. 1935
 Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Urogomphus giganteus1 Germar 1839 small darner
JME 1951.21
 Dicondylia - Tarsophlebiidae
Tarsophlebia eximia3 Hagen 1862 winged insect
JME SOS 3609a
Reptilia
 Eosuchia - Homoeosauridae
Homoeosaurus maximiliani2 von Meyer 1847 lepidosaur
IPHG no. 1937 I 40, skull; Ernst Mayer collection d'Eichstatt, specimen no. RMc 1 (not Rpm), partial skeleton