#solnhofia — Public Fediverse posts

Perfectly preserved #turtle fossil gives clues to habitat 150 million years ago
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-turtle-fossil-clues-habitat-million.html

A new specimen of #Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper #Jurassic Plattenkalk deposits of Painten and comments on the relationship between limb #taphonomy and habitat #ecology in #fossil #turtles https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287936

"About 150 million years ago, a shallow, tropical sea stretched across southern #Germany; it contained many islands and reefs that separated basins from the open sea."