Solnhofen fossil Fish Leptolepides

Description

Nice slab with 3 Jurassic Solnhofen fossil Fish Leptolepides sprattiformis. They appears to be swimming among Algaes. They are Iron Manganese Dendrites that sometimes appear along natural cracks in the Solnhofen Limestones. The fossil fish are about 7 to 8.5 cm or 2,75 to 3.3 inches long. The limestone slab is unbroken and measures 30 by 16 cm or 11.8 by 6.25 inches. It is an older fossil. Leptolepides sprattiformis is a very common fossil in the Solnhofen area. But these layers, where there is so many of them on the surface, are not quarried anymore. They where called the “Fischli Flinz”. It was just the one layer that contained these mass mortality assemblages and showed up in different locations in the closed by area. Often the fish is shown in pairs. Some believe that the fish died during mating. Experiments showed also that dead fish can assemble in pairs due to water turbolence. Perhaps it might be both since many fish species die after mating and wash up together in large quantitie

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