Solnhofen: Tithonian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Metriorhynchinae indet.
Buchy 2008
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Herrera et al. 2021 | |||||||||
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Cricosaurus elegans
(Wagner 1852)
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Andrade et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| NHM 43005 | ||||||||||
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= Cricosaurus informal Solnhofen sp.
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Sachs et al. 2019 | |||||||||
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Geosaurus giganteus
(Sömmerring 1816)
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Andrade et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| NHM 37016–37020 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ichthyosauria
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Ichthyosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Sander 2000 | |||||||||
| Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Eurysternidae
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Palaeomedusa testa
(von Meyer 1860)
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Joyce 2003 | |||||||||
| MB R 2894 | ||||||||||
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Coelacanthimorpha
- Laugiidae
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Coccoderma suevicum
Quenstedt 1858
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Lambers 1991 | |||||||||
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Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Brachyphyllum nepos
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Brachyphyllum gracile
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Araucarites sp.
Presl 1833
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Gymnospermopsida
- Corystospermales
- Corystospermaceae
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Cycadopteris jurensis
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Ginkgoopsida
- Ginkgoales
- Ginkgoaceae
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? Ginkgo sp.
Linnaeus 1771
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unclassified
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Furcifolium longifolium
Seward 1943
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Condylites squamatus
Thistleton-Dyer 1872
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Palaeocyparis recurrens
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Palaeocyparis princeps
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Palaeocyparis itieri
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Bennettitales
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Zamites moreaui
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Coniferales
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Athrotaxites lycopodioides
Unger 1849
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Coniferales
- Cupressaceae
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Callitris sp.
Ventenat 1808
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Coniferales
- Podocarpaceae
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Podozamites pulchellus
Heer 1876
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Pinopsida
- Pinales
- Taxaceae
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Palissya sp.
Endlicher 1847
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Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Franconia |
| Coordinates: | 48.9° North, 11.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 19.1° 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 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Jurassic | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Portlandian |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:from Barale (1981, p. 283) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 24521 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Rees, M. Uhen, P. Mannion, P. Wagner | Enterer: | A. Rees, P. Wagner, J. Tennant, M. Uhen, G. Varnham |
| Modifier: | A. Rees | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2002-08-08 14:30:12 | Last modified: | 2002-08-08 17:52:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-08 14:30:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6888. | PGAP | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 43156 | M. B. Andrade, M. T. Young, J. B. Desojo and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. The evolution of extreme hypercarnivory in Metriorhynchidae (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) based on evidence from microscopic denticle morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1451-1465 [M. Young/M. Young] | |
| 79044 | Y. Herrera, M. Aiglstorfer, and M. Bronzati. 2021. A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) from southern Germany: the first three-dimensionally preserved Cricosaurus skull from the Solnhofen Archipelago. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(2):145-167 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 45084 | W. G. Joyce. 2003. A new Late Jurassic turtle specimen and the taxonomy of Palaeomedusa testa and Eurysternum wagleri. PaleoBios 23(3):1-8 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 78651 | P. H. Lambers. 1991. The identity of the type specimen of Coelacanthus harlemensis Winkler (Pisces, Actinistia) from the lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Tithonian), Bavaria. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 65(2):173-189 [M. Uhen/B. Friend/M. Uhen] | |
| 71489 | S. Sachs, M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young and P. Abel. 2019. The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus brevior. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(3):565-579 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/G. Varnham] | |
| 46676 | P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |