Quriosity Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hi all, Here's a few pictures I took while visiting Solnhofen's fossil museum last summer. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did! Alex 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Alex.... Thanks for sharing your experience... That toothed fish... I could certainly live with that, awsome.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Beautiful, Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Love this museum... thanks for sharing Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Some additional pictures! Here's a view of the main display rooms: Not only are the fossils particularly exceptional, but the display is excellent, too. A great effort has been made to show all the fossils that can be found in the Lagerstätten, and not just the "usual" specimens that most collectors know of. Fish, crocodiles, pterosaurs, ammonites, plants, squids, jellyfish, insects and lots of other specimens! I'll keep posting some pictures. Some invertebrates to begin with. There was a cool display under UV light, used by scientists to see some tissues otherwise invisible (such as tissues in the wings of pterosaurs). A nice giant squid (around 4 feet long), positive and negative imprints. Huge jellyfish (a foot in diameter): And a horseshoe crab with its tracks. Actually many of the horseshoe crabs found in the area only correspond to the skin (left behind after sloughing? I'm not sure of the English word). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 And a little close-up on the more than well-preserved head of the predatory fish (identified as Strobilodus giganteus). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I love the Strobilodus giganteus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 For additional (and much more detailed!) information, as well as countless pictures, the website http://www.solnhofen-fossilienatlas.de/index.php is excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Nice! Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 O my gosh another place to add to the Bucket List..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediospirifer Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Very nice! I love the sea urchin, the sea star, and that giant jellyfish. Ah, let's face it--everything that comes out of that formation is amazing! Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 Some reptiles: A pleurosaurus: A complete turtle with remnants of sea urchins in its stomach: And a small Rynchocephalus: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 Following with the two famous Archaeopteryx and a small theropod (Sciurumimus albersdoerfi): 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 And a few pterodactyles: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dre464 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Awesome museum! Thanks for the pics! "Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator." - C.S. Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welsh Wizard Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I went there about 10 years ago. A fantastic place and well worth a visit. Great pictures by the way. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 I'm adding a last few pictures of the Solnhofen Museum befire switching to Eichstätt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Fantastic.... I will probably never make it there so sharing your journey has been a pleasure.... Thanks... Love the shark... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Well, I still have some pictures from Solnhofen... I forgot to show you what the museum looked like from the outside, so here it is: They put a dinosaur as advertisement... Not very realistic but we all forgive them! A few more fossils to enjoy: When you leave by the train you walk past the local fossil shop: If you didn't have time to hunt for fossils in one of the quarries then you can still bring back something... It all depends on the price you're willing to pay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 And now this is really the end... After four hours spent in the museum, I had to leave for Eichstätt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Quriosity Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 On the way now to Eichstätt... The town is only about 20km from Solnhofen down the Altmühl valley. You can take a small train to reach the city center, and you can see some quarries during the ride: There are two fossil museums in Eichstätt: the Jura-Museum (which I visited) and the Museum Bergér, a little out of town and too far for me to see it on that day... So here's the entrance to the Jura Museum: (it's located in an old castle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 The display is rather good (but not as good as in Solnhofen, I found). Again, they have some pretty big fossils, including the largest one ever found in the area (my last picture in this post): a 5m-long crocodile found in the 1950s. It was rather damaged in the first place, and was badly restored... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfossilcollector Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Magnificent!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quriosity Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 A few insects from the Jurassic. These ones are pretty big (the locust is about 7cm long). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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