Jurassic Solnhofen Shrimp
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Blaculla sieboldi
Solnhofen Limestone (Upper Jurassic Tithonian)
Eichstatt, Germany
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This is an excellent example of the rare genus Blaculla. This specimen has good detail. The species has a noticeable enlarged cephalothorax. The first pair of walking legs is equipped with pincers and the second pair shows obvious segmentation and also pincers. Blaculla is very rare in the Solnhofen deposits. The slab is 8 inches by 6.5 inches.
The Solnhofen Plattenkalk, or Solnhofen limestone, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerst�tte 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 feathered theropod dinosaur 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 (N�rnberg) and Munich (M�nchen) and were originally quarried as a source of Lithographic limestone.
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