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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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    The Solnhofen Plattenkalk, a collective term of multiple Late Jurassic lithographic limestones in southeastern Germany, is famous for its well preserved...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Pseudastacus (category Solnhofen fauna)
    was a widespread taxon. Fossils of this animal were first found in the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, but have also been recorded from France, England...
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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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  • "Two new species of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Upper Jurassic, southern Germany)". Neues Jahrbuch...
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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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    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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    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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    Mesurupetala, Late Jurassic (Tithonian), Solnhofen limestone (Germany)...
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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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    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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    Starfish fossil, Riedaster reicheli, from the Plattenkalk Upper Jurassic limestone, Solnhofen...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • quarry in Langenaltheim. Opitsch gave the fossil to the Maxberg Museum at Solnhofen. In 1974 he reintegrated the fossil into his private collection. When...
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  • fossil insects, the most famous being the Late Jurassic limestones from Solnhofen and Eichstätt, Germany, which are marine. These deposits are famous for...
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    bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
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    is a fossil stem-octopod known from a handful of specimens from German Solnhofen plattenkalk. Coleoid cephalopods through time (Warnke K., Keupp H., Boletzky...
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    Manganese dendrites on a limestone bedding plane from Solnhofen, Germany. Scale in mm....
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    et sp. nov., a new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Brunn (Solnhofen Archipelago, southern Germany)". PeerJ. 9: e11363. doi:10.7717/peerj.11363...
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    Although ammonites do occur in exceptional lagerstatten such as the Solnhofen Limestone, their soft-part record is surprisingly sparse. Beyond a tentative...
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