Paleobiota of the Solnhofen Limestone

The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk is a collective term for multiple Late Jurassic lithographic limestones in southeastern Germany, which is famous for its well-preserved fossil flora and fauna dating to the late Jurassic. The paleoenvironment is also often referred to as the Solnhofen Archipelago. The Solnhofen Archipelago was located at the northern edge of the Tethys Ocean as part of a shallow epicontinental sea and is firmly a part of the Mediterranean realm.

Chondrichthyes

Genus	Species	Locality	Formation	Notes	Images
Ammonella	A. quadrata	Pfalzpaint	Altmühltal Formation	Greatly resembles the Cambrian Protospongia
Hruodospongia	H. lithographica	Wintershof	Altmühltal Formation	An axinellid sponge, the third sponge genus known from Solnhofen
Neochoiaella	N. frattigianii	Langenaltheim	Altmühltal Formation	An extreme Lazarus taxon, resembles the Cambrian choiid sponges.

Lambers, P. H.. The actinopterygian fish fauna of the Late Kimmeridgian and Early Tithonian 'Plattenkalke' near Solnhofen : state of the art. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:215-229.