Biology:Solnhofia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Eurysternidae |
| Genus: | †Solnhofia Gaffney, 1975 |
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Solnhofia is a genus of extinct thalassochelydian turtle from the Late Jurassic of Germany . The type species is Solnhofia parsonsi, named by Gaffney in 1975 for a partial skull and jaw from the early Tithonian of the Solnhofen Formation in Bavaria. Additional material including a complete skeleton is known from the late Kimmeridgian of Switzerland and the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian of other deposits within Bavaria, and potentially also unprepared material from the Late Jurassic of France . The genus was referred to the family Eurysternidae by Anquetin and colleagues in 2017, which may represent an artificial grade of early thalassochelydians.[1] In 2020 a new species Solnhofia brachyrhyncha was described from the Kimmeridigan aged Reuchenette Formation of Switzerland.[2]
References
- ↑ Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. https://doc.rero.ch/record/305668/files/joy_rfr.pdf.
- ↑ Anquetin, Jérémy; Püntener, Christian (2020-11-12). "A new species of the large-headed coastal marine turtle Solnhofia (Testudinata, Thalassochelydia) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland" (in en). PeerJ 8: e9931. doi:10.7717/peerj.9931. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 33240584.
Wikidata ☰ Q96405975 entry
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