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    Solnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the region of Middle Franconia in the Land of Bavaria in Germany. It is in the...
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    The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk, formally known as the Altmühltal Formation, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare...
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    Archaeopteryx (category Solnhofen fauna)
    deposits, quarried for centuries, near Solnhofen, Germany. These quarries excavate sediments from the Solnhofen Limestone formation and related units....
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    The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk is a collective term for multiple Late Jurassic lithographic limestones in southeastern Germany, which...
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  • Dürrenberg. The Altmühl flows through the district. From here comes the Solnhofen limestone. Among its nature reserves is the Brombachmoor. The district...
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    Pterodactylus (category Solnhofen fauna)
    discovered. Fossil remains of Pterodactylus have primarily been found in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany, which dates from the Late Jurassic period...
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    Compsognathus (category Solnhofen fauna)
    In the Jurassic, the region was part of the Solnhofen archipelago. The limestone of the area, the Solnhofen limestone, had been quarried for centuries...
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    Specimens of Archaeopteryx (category Solnhofen fauna)
    Archaeopteryx fossils from the quarries of Solnhofen limestone represent the most famous and well-known fossils from this area. They are highly significant...
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    white barite at the center Psilomelane and pyrolusite from Solnhofen Limestone quarries, Solnhofen, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany Vanadinite and psilomelane...
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    reduction rather than individual variation." The type specimen is the Solnhofen Specimen of Archaeopteryx (BSP 1999). Discovered in the 1960s near Eichstätt...
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  • Pire February 8, 1935 Uccle S. Arend NYS 16 km MPC · JPL 3229 Solnhofen A916 PC Solnhofen August 9, 1916 Hamburg-Bergedorf H. Thiele  · 7.1 km MPC · JPL...
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    content of approximately 15%. Manganese oxide dendrites on limestone from Solnhofen, Germany – a kind of pseudofossil. Scale is in mm Mineral rhodochrosite...
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    Lagerstätten. The pieces from one such Lagerstätte, the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, became much sought after by rich collectors. In...
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    original source for lithographic limestone was the Solnhofen Limestone, named after the quarries of Solnhofen where it was first found. This is a late Jurassic...
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  • discovered: 4  797 Montana November 17, 1914 MPC 843 Nicolaia September 30, 1916 MPC 1847 Stobbe February 1, 1916 MPC 3229 Solnhofen August 9, 1916 MPC...
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    rynchocephalian from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany Homeosaurus maximiliani, a rynchocephalian from the Solnhofen Limestone Pleurosaurus,, an aquatic...
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    greasy, acid resistant ink as a resist on a smooth fine-grained stone of Solnhofen limestone. He then discovered that this could be extended to allow printing...
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    Starfish fossil, Riedaster reicheli, from the Plattenkalk Upper Jurassic limestone, Solnhofen...
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    majority in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Outstanding sites include Solnhofen in Upper Bavaria, Germany, Karatau in South Kazakhstan, the Yixian formation...
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  • "Two new species of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Upper Jurassic, southern Germany)". Neues Jahrbuch...
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    Mesurupetala, Late Jurassic (Tithonian), Solnhofen limestone (Germany)...
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    Aeger tipularius is a species of fossil prawn from the Solnhofen limestone. Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann & Iuliana Lazǎr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea...
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    solenoides with aptychi in place Perisphinctes with aptychi from the Solnhofen limestone Zell, P., Stinnesbeck, W., Beckmann, S. (2016). "Late Jurassic...
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    (see below). Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the late Jurassic Period Solnhofen Formation of Germany, is usually considered the earliest known avialan...
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    Brefeldia maxima growing fractally on wood Psilomelane dendrites in the Solnhofen Limestone Fractals often appear in the realm of living organisms where...
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    fossilization, a situation that can be compared to the better-known Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone lagerstätte. The remains of fish and various marine reptiles...
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  • Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Cerambycinus. It is known from Solnhofen Limestone. It was described by Münster in 1839. Its body length was about...
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    The Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum is a natural history museum in Solnhofen, Germany. In 1954 the mayor Friedrich Mueller brought his private collection...
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    Fossil jellyfish, Rhizostomites lithographicus, one of the Scypho-medusae, from the Kimmeridgian (late Jurassic, 157 to 152 mya) of Solnhofen, Germany...
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    Chiappe, Luis M. (2006). "A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago" (PDF). Nature. 440 (7082). London: Nature Research: 329–332...
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