Solnhofen (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Franconia, Germany (48.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Barale. 1981. La paleoflore Jurassique du Jura Francais: Etude systematique, aspects stratigraphiques et paleoecologiques. Documents des Laboratoires de Geologie Lyon (81)1-467 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24521: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 08.08.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Mark Uhen, Grace Varnham and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• from Barale (1981, p. 283)
Coelacanthimorpha
  - Laugiidae
Coccoderma suevicum4 Quenstedt 1858 lobe-finned fish
Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchinae indet.2 Buchy 2008 marine crocodile
Cricosaurus "Solnhofen sp."5 Wagner 1858 marine crocodile
NHM 43005
Geosaurus giganteus1 Sömmerring 1816 marine crocodile
NHM 37016–37020
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.6 ichthyosaur
Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported
 Testudinata - Eurysternidae
Palaeomedusa testa3 von Meyer 1860 turtle
MB R 2894
Palaeocyparis
  -
 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Callitris sp. Ventenat 1808 cypress
 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites pulchellus Heer 1876 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Palissya sp. Endlicher 1847 yew
Condylites squamatus
  -
Condylites squamatus Thistleton-Dyer 1872
Gymnospermopsida
 Corystospermales - Corystospermaceae
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Furcifolium longifolium
  -
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
? Ginkgo sp. Linnaeus 1771 ginkgo