The Tharsis fish, found in the 152-million-year-old Solnhofen Plattenkalk formation in Germany, has been studied in great detail by paleontologists Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert. Their analysis ...

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching.

It had also been collected from a different layer in the rock record than the others, which had all come from the well-known Solnhofen Formation. Our specimen was collected from the Moernsheim ...

A rare fossil discovery in Germany reveals the first juvenile Pleurosaurus, reshaping our understanding of Jurassic reptile ...

Around 152 million years ago, a fish met a gruesome end. The 15-centimeter-long animal died an agonizing death, impaled on a 10-centimeter-long belemnite.

The 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 deposit, part of a deposit of ...

The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago. PeerJ, 2022; 10: e13173 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13173 ...