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Solnhofen Plattenkalk (limestone) fossil sites

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The limestone quarry here is one of many in the area.  Archaeopteryx was found in the Solnhofen limestone (type locality is near Solnhofen.  The quarries are active and cannot be collected from.  The type locality needs to be found.

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Solnhofen Plattenkalk

The Solnhofen Plattenkalk, or Solnhofen limestone, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies. The most familiar fossils of the Solnhofen Plattenkalk include the early bird Archaeopteryx preserved in such detail that they are among the most famous and most beautiful fossils in the world. The Solnhofen beds lie in the German state of Bavaria (Bayern), halfway between Nuremberg (Nürnberg) and Munich (München) and were originally quarried as a source of Lithographic limestone.

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