Compsognathus type, Kapfelberg (BSP): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Germany
collected by Oberndorfer 1850

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Saccocoma sp. Agassiz 1836
Ostrom 1978 6 specimens
Reptilia
Aplax oberndorferi n. gen., n. sp. Meyer 1843
Anquetin et al. 2017
nomen dubium belonging to Testudinata
Reptilia - Testudines
Platychelys oberndorferi n. sp. Wagner 1853
Wagner 1853 2 specimens
The holotype. Plus Wagner 1861 reported a second specimen: 'Herr Dr Oberndorfer has collected a second example of Platychelys oberndorferi from the shales of Kelheim'
Reptilia - Eurysternidae
Plesiochelys minima n. sp. Oertel 1915
Anquetin et al. 2017
nomen dubium belonging to Eurysternidae
Eurysternum crassipes Wagner 1861
Wagner 1861
Collected by Herrn Dr. Oberndorfer 19 November 1859
    = Palaeomedusa crassipes
Karl et al. 2012
Palaeomedusa testa n. sp. (von Meyer 1860)
von Meyer 1860
BSPG AS I 818 (holotype), partial anterior half of a carapace with skull, articulated cervical series, and complete right and partial left forelimbs
Idiochelys fitzingeri n. sp. Meyer 1839
First reported by von Meyer 1839
Idiochelys wagneri n. sp. Meyer 1846
Wagner 1853
synonym of Idiochelys fitzingeri
First reported by von Meyer 1846
Reptilia
Bavarisaurus macrodactylus (Wagner 1854)
Ostrom 1978 1 specimen
misspelling Homoeosaurus macrodactylus
BSPHM 1873 III (A.K.A. SNSB-BSPG 1873 III 501, holotype), complete skeleton
Reptilia - Eichstaettisauridae
Schoenesmahl dyspepsia n. gen., n. sp. Conrad 2017
Conrad 2017 1 specimen
[PREV. ID'D AS BAVARISAURUS] SNSB-BSPG AS I 563b (holotype), incomplete skeleton found in stomach of C. longipes holotype
Reptilia
Atoposaurus oberndorferi n. sp. Meyer 1850
Wellnhofer 1971 1 specimen
TM 3956 (Teyler-Museum, Haarlem)
Reptilia - Compsognathidae
Compsognathus longipes n. gen., n. sp. Wagner 1861
Wagner 1861 1 specimen
type (11 measurements)
Reptilia - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchus longicaudus (Münster 1839)
Wellnhofer 1975 1 specimen
synonym of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri
"Exemplar 6"
Reptilia - Homoeosauridae
Homoeosaurus maximiliani n. sp. von Meyer 1847
Fabre 1981 3 specimens
Meyer 1847 holotype (no number given; since lost). Neotype: IPHG no. AS I 565, a partial skeleton (Holotype and neotype both partial skeletons). l'Universite Humboldt-Berlin no. RHY4, partial skeleton
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bayern
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 12.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.3° North, 20.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:155.70000 - 150.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Painten
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Reisdorf & Wuttke: "Because of its uncertain origin, neither its biostratigraphical age nor its lithostratigraphic classification is considered certain (Fig. 2). If it originated in Jachenhausen, then it can be considered to be from the Painten Formation (Zandt Member; cf. Zeiss 1977), and thus of an assumed Early Tithonian age (Rueppellianus Zone, Riedense or Early Rueppellianus Subzone) (G. Schweigert, personal communication 2011). On the other hand, if it came from the Kelheim area, then it is either from the lithostratigraphic equivalent of the uppermost Kimmeridgian of the Kapfelberg locality, or from the Lower Tithonian plattenkalks of the Goldberg locality (cf. Röper 2005a; Schweigert 2007). Since Kapfelberg has delivered a great quantity of reptile finds, it is the more probable locality (cf. Abel 1922; Kemp 2001). Whatever the case, both of these Plattenkalk deposits are considered part of the Painten Formation (G. Schweigert, personal communication 2011)."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,adpression,replaced with calcite
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Articulated whole bodies:all
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Oberndorfer Collection dates:1850s
Metadata
Also known as:Kelheim
Database number:57682
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Barrett, R. Butler, E. Vlachos, R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, E. Vlachos, R. Benson, T. Cleary, J. Tennant, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-12-15 13:35:39 Last modified:2023-01-27 09:25:09
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-15 13:35:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58954. H. v. Meyer. 1839. Zu meiner nun vor fast zehn Jahren gemachten und unausgesetzt verfolgten Entdeckung... [On my constantly pursued discovery, now made almost ten years ago...]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfaktenkunde 1839:76-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63585 J. Anquetin, C. Puntener, and W. G. Joyce. 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(3):317-369 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]
14221ETE K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64555 J. L. Conrad. 2017. A new lizard (Squamata) was the last meal of Compsognathus (Theropoda: Dinosauria) and is a holotype in a holotype. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlx055:1-51 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
57877 J. Fabre. 1981. Les rhynchocephales et les pterosauriens a crete parietale du Kimeridgien superieur-Berriasien d'Europe occidentale: le gisement de Canjuers (Var-France) et ses abords. 1-188 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
46182 A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64572 C. Gegenbaur. 1864. Untersuchungen zur Vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere. Erstes Heft. Carpus und Tarsus [Studies on Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates. First Volume. Carpus and Tarsus] viii-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16871ETE F. v. Huene. 1901. Kleine Paläontologische Mitteilungen No. 3: Der vermuthliche Hautpanzer des Compsognathus longipes Wagn. [Short Paleontological Contriibutions No. 3: On the probable dermal armor of Compsognathus longipes Wagner]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1901(1):157-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63047 L. Joleaud. 1922. Les reptiles fossiles [Fossil reptiles]. Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences. Conférences. Compte Rendu de la 45e Session 49-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46818 H.-V. Karl, G. Tichy, and D. Valdisberri. 2012. Sontiochelys cretacea Stache, 1905 and new description of the families Eurysternidae Dollo, 1886 and Thalassemydidae Rutimeyer, 1873 (Testudines: Cryptodira). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 48(1):45-76 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Wagner]
15511ETE J. H. Ostrom. 1978. The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4:73-118 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
78879 A. G. Reisdorf and M. Wuttke. 2012. Re-evaluating Moodie’s opisthotonic-posture hypothesis in fossil vertebrates part I: reptiles—the taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92(1):119-168 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63586 H. von Meyer. 1860. Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Reptilien aus dem lithographischen Schiefer des Jura in Deutschland und Frankreich. 1-142 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
44123 A. v. Wagner. 1853. Beschreibung einer fossilen Schildkröte und etlicher anderer Reptilien-Ueberreste aus den lithographischen Schiefern und dem Grünsandstein. Abhandlungen der Mathemat.-Physikalischen Classe de Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:241-264 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]
26303ETE J. A. Wagner. 1861. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der urweltlichen Fauna des lithographischen Schiefers [New contributions to the knowledge of the ancient fauna of the lithographic slates]. Abhandlungen der königlichen bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaft, II Classe 9(1):65-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42522 P. Wellnhofer. 1971. Die Atoposauridae (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Bayerns. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 138(5-6):133-165 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
32121 P. Wellnhofer. 1975. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands, Teil II, Systematische Beschreibung. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 148:132-186 [R. Butler/R. Butler]