The
Solnhofen Plattenkalk, a collective term of multiple Late Jurassic
lithographic limestones in southeastern
Germany
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, is famous for its well preserved fossil flora and fauna dating to the late Jurassic.
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes (; ) is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes that have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or ''bony fishes'', which have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. ...
Chondrostei
Chondrostei is a group of non-neopterygian ray-finned fish, while the term originally referred to a paraphyletic group of all non-neopterygian ray-finned fish, it was redefined by Patterson in 1982 to be a clade comprising the Acipenseriformes (w ...
Halecostomi
Semionotidae
Macrosemiidae
Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes is an extinct order of primarily marine bony fish. The group first appeared during the Late Triassic and disappeared during the Eocene. The group has been found in rock formations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America ...
Pachycormidae
Pachycormiformes is an extinct order of marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. It only includes a single family, Pachycormidae. They were characterized by having serrated pectoral fins (though more rece ...
Others
Halecomorphi
Caturidae
Ionoscopidae
Furidae
Other halecomorphs
Halecomorphi incertae sedis
Teleostei
Teleostei (; Greek ''teleios'' "complete" + ''osteon'' "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts ), is, by far, the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, containing 96% of all extant species of fish. Te ...
Pleuropholidae
Aspidorhynchidae
Pholidophoridae
Allothrissopidae
Orthogonikleithridae
Anaethalionidae
Others
Reptiles
Lizards
Rhynchocephalians
Ichthyosaurs
Turtles
Crocodylomorphs
Dinosaurs
Pterosaurs
Invertebrate paleofauna
Crinoids
Cephalopods
Xiphosura
Thylacocephalans
Insects
References
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* Lambers, P. H. (1999). The actinopterygian fish fauna of the Late Kimmeridgian and Early Tithonian 'Plattenkalke' near Solnhofen (Bavaria, Germany): state of the art. ''Geologie en Mijnbouw'' 78:215-229.