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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Leptolepis sp., collected from the Lithographic Limestone of Late Jurassic, Early Kimmeridgian age from Solenhofen, Bavaria, Germany. Collected by Thomas Atthey.
Leptolepis was a small fish. This example, from Solenhofen in Germany, was part of the collection of Thomas Atthey. Atthey was a local grocer by trade, who collected fossils from the local coal mines. He is particularly well known for his important collection of fossil fish and large amphibians from the Coal Measures. He probably got this fossil from a German collector, or a more local collector, because European travel was more expensive and the travelling time longer in the 19th century when Atthey was alive.
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 Atthey Pisces Thomas | 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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