Large Thrissops formosus from Solnhofen
$450.00
Thrissops formosus
Phylum: Chordata; Class: Actinopterygii; Order: Ichthydectifomes
Tithonium, Weissjura- Group, Moernsheim Formation, Muehlheim Subformation, Malm zeta 3
Hybonotum Zone, Moernsheimensis Subzone, moernsheimensis horizon
Schaudiberg/ Muehlheim, near Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany
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Large Thrissops formosus from the Solnhofen area for sale. The fish itself is 25 cm or 9.8 inches long.
Thrissops formosus is a predatory fish that occurs in the Eichstett and Moernsheim Formation of the Solnhofen Eichsteett area.
The fossil here comes from the Moernsheim Formation at the Muehlheim Quarry. The Moernsheim Formation, Muehlheim Subformation (Malm zeta 3) is directly on top of the Altmuehltal Formation, Eichstett Subformation (Malm zeta 1/2). Therefore it is up to 2 million years younger.
The Moernsheim Formation represents the end of the Solnhofen Lagune, that produced so many well preserved Jurassic Fossils. The fossil species in the Moernsheim Formation are somewhat the same as in the Eichstett Formation. Many of them continue to exist. Some species are completely new. And some have changed in evolutionary terms in those 2 million years since the beginning of the Solnhofen Lagune. They created a new species in the process.
First overlooked the Moernsheim Formation is heavily studied in the last 14 years. The stone was not as usable as the lower Eichstett Formation. They are both “Plattenkalk, but one is more a limestone, the other (Moernsheim) is silicated. The changes are due to environmental changes. It is said that the Solnhofen Lagune opened more up to the ocean at the end of its existence.
The opening of the now famous Muehlheim quarry near Solnhofen as a U-Dig quarry and the work of the enthusiastic owner and fossil collector Roland Poeschl changed that. Many new species where discovered at the Muehlheim quarry. Many of them don’t have names. The just recently (2017) discovered Alkmonavis poeschli represents probably the first real flying Dinosaur. 2 million years younger than the related glider Archaeopterix, it had the muscles to actually take off.
Still there is some more surprises to be expected.
For more information you can go to or click here : https://www.solnhofen-fossilienatlas.de and write the german name for fishes = “Fische” under Suche. If you want a english translation it would be better to google Solnhofen Fossilienatls and choose “translate this page” in Google already.
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