Solnhofen (BMNH collection): Early/Lower Tithonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae
Lepidotus notopterus Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 2 specimens
recombined as Callipurbeckia notopterus
BMNH P.470 (type specimen described by Agassiz, Egerton coll.), 37036 (Häberlein coll.)
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae
Macrosemius rostratus Agassiz 1834
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH 37051, 37094 (Häberlein Coll.); BMNH P.7177 (purchased 1894)
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotus unguiculatus Agassiz 1833
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH 37022 (Häberlein coll.)
Lepidotus palliatus Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.338 (purchased 1881)
Lepidotus subovatus (Münster 1842)
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH 37999 (plaster cast of type specimen, purchased 1864)
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Geosaurus giganteus (Sömmerring 1816)
Young and Andrade 2009 2 specimens
BMNH 37016, tooth crown lacking apex, base, and root; BMNH 37020, skull and mandible embedded within lithographic limestone, only visible in left lateral view
Reptilia - Eurysternidae
Parachelys eichstaettensis n. sp. von Meyer 1864
Meyer 1864
NHMUK OR42888 (holotype), shell fragments, subcomplete right manus, right scapula, coracoid, and humerus (Meyer 1864, pl. 45.1–6)
Ophiopsiidae
Ophiopsis aequalis Wagner 1863
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.7176 (purchased 1894)
Ophiopsis procera Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH 37029 (Häberlein Coll.); BMNH P.6939 (by exchange 1893)
Chondrichthyes - Protospinacidae
Protospinax annectans n. gen., n. sp. Woodward 1919
Woodward 1919
Chondrichthyes
Squalogaleus woodwardi n. gen., n. sp. Maisey 1976
Maisey 1976
Protospinax annectens in Pl 1, fig 3 of Woodward
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Crossorhinidae
Crossorhinus jurassicus n. sp. Woodward 1919
Woodward 1919
Pycnogonida - Pantopoda - Ascorhynchidae
? Eurycyde golem n. sp. Sabroux et al. 2019
Sabroux et al. 2019 1 specimen
NHMUK-In-39751
Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae
Hexagenites weyenberghii n. gen., n. sp. Scudder 1880
1 specimen
corrected as Hexagenites weyenberghi
specimen first described in Eaton, 1871 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Gryllidae informal indet. 3 (Laicharting 1781)
Zeuner 1939 1 specimen
Grylloides
NHM In 32263 Coll Häberlein (2 measurements)
Gryllidae informal indet. 4 (Laicharting 1781)
Zeuner 1939 1 specimen
Grylloides
NHM In 32264 Coll Häberlein (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera
Jurassobatea gryllacroides n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1937
Zeuner 1937 1 specimen
NHM In 31990 Coll Häberlein (2 measurements)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Haglidae
Cyrtophyllites rogeri Oppenheim 1888
Zeuner 1939 1 specimen
NHM In 31937 Coll Häberlein
Insecta - Orthoptera - Prophalangopsidae
Pycnophlebia robusta Zeuner 1939
Zeuner 1939 1 specimen
NHM In. 37133 Coll Häberlein (2 measurements)
Insecta - Orthoptera
Gryllacris propinqua Deichmüller 1886
Zeuner 1939 1 specimen
recombined as Pseudogryllacris propinqua
NHM In. 37134 Coll Häberlein
Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Conocephalus capito n. sp. Deichmüller 1886
Deichmüller 1886 5 specimens
recombined as Conocephalella capito
NHM In 36201 (3 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 11.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 19.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Tithonian Ammonoid zone: Hybonoticeras hybonotum
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Solnhofen
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: Plattenkalk limestone
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:121197
Authorizer:M. Clapham, C. Labandeira, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Karr, E. Vlachos, A. Spencer-Lee, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology,vertebrate
Created:2011-11-30 12:36:18 Last modified:2020-08-23 11:54:39
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-30 12:36:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
39120. S. H. Scudder. 1880. The Devonian insects of New Brunswick. Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 1830-1880 1-41 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]

Secondary references:

38691 J. G. Maisey. 1976. The Jurassic selachian fish Protospinax Woodward. Palaeontology 19(4):733-747 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
63591 H. v. Meyer. 1864. Parachelys Eichstättensis aus dem lithographischen Schiefer von Eichstätt. Palaeontographica 11:289-295 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
85405 R. Sabroux, D. Audo, S. Charbonnier, L. Corbari, and A. Hassanin. 2019. 150-million-year-old sea spiders (Pycnogonida: Pantopoda) of Solnhofen. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1927-1938 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38893 A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38690 A. S. Woodward. 1919. On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13:231-235 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
42559 M. T. Young and M. B. Andrade. 2009. What is Geosaurus? Redescription of Geosaurus giganteus (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(3):551-585 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Young]
5179ETE 891F. E. Zeuner. 1937. Descriptions of new genera and species of fossil Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, Series B, Taxonomy 6(8):154-159 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
39932 F. E. Zeuner. 1939. Fossil Orthoptera Ensifera 1-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]