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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Leptolepis dubius, collected from the Lithographic Limestone of Late Jurassic, Early Kimmeridgian age from Solenhofen (?), Bavaria, Germany. Collected by J. Goring.
This Leptolepis fossil fish is preserved in the famous Solenhofen Limestone of southern Germany. The Solenhofen Limestone is famous because several very good specimens of Archaeopteryx (one of the earliest fossil birds)have been found there. This fish lived in a lagoon (a lagoon is an area of shallow water that is protected from the open sea, often by a coral reef).
The specimen was found in Germany.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces J. Goring | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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