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Solnhofen-style soft-tissue preservation in a new species of turtle from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian) of north-east Brazil.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A large crinoid plaque from the famous fossil region of Solnhofen in Germany is estimated at £15,000-£25,000.
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The fossil beds in China are both more extensive, and less-developed, than in other countries, and there are tons of villages spending old-time hard work mining and quarrying to make roofing slates and housing materials and thus, as in Solnhofen, coming across these fossils more readily than the scientists at the other sites, who work on their own, and never fake fossils.
Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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[69] Most of the lithographic stone is obtained at Solnhofen.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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A fossil of one of its feathers was found in the 1860s near Solnhofen by German palaeontologist Hermann von Meyer.
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A fossil of one of its feathers was found in the 1860s near Solnhofen by German palaeontologist Hermann von Meyer.
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Whereas in Solnhofen the shale chalk is commercially exploited, hobby archaeologists large and small have a chance to make discoveries of their own at the Blumenberg quarry on the outskirts of Eichstaett.
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When quarrying first began in these parts in the 19th century the land around Eichstaett and Solnhofen yielded many fossilised relics of ancient animal life.
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Back then the mountainous region around Eichstaett, Solnhofen, Weissenburg and Treuchtlingen in this southern German state was situated on the edge of a tropical ocean dotted with small islands.
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When quarrying first began in these parts in the 19th century the land around Eichstaett and Solnhofen yielded many fossilised relics of ancient animal life.
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