Solnhofen (Stockholm Riksmuseum collection): Early/Lower Tithonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Hypsocormus sp.
previously described by Holmgren & Stensiƶ
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 19.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Solnhofen
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified calcareous lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Riksmuseum, Stockholm.
Metadata
Also known as:Solenhofen
Database number:130762
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-13 07:50:09 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-13 07:50:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42278. D. H. Rayner. 1948. The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233(601):287-345 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]