Museum Solnhofen Aspidorhynchus Fish Fossil

From the Painten Quarry!

Aspidorhynchus acutirostris

Class Osteichthyes, Order Aspidorhynchirormes

Geological Time: Jurassic

Size (25.4mm=1 inch): Fish fossil is 11 ¼” in length if outstretched. The plate size is 15” x 11 x 1 ¾””.

Fossil Site: Solnhofen Lagerstätte, Painten Quarry, Malm epsilon, Bayern, Germany

Code: PFS260

Price: $2000.00


Aspidorhynchus acutirostrisDescription: Presented is a spectacular specimen of this salt- water predator. It exhibits excellent preservation of the rostrum, head, scales and fins. Note the intact caudal, pectoral, anal and pelvic fins. The small sharp teeth are excellently preserved. The specimen is side facing in a graceful death pose. The plate is thick and heavy providing an aesthetic mounting for the Aspidorhynchus to reside. The plate was cracked into three sections. It was professionally repaired, losing none of the fish’s detail. The fossil has had no restoration.

The Aspidorhynchus was excavated from the famous Painten Quarry, a part of the Solnhofen Plattenkalk. The fossils found at this particular quarry have a slightly different matrix composition, and distinctive sweet chocolate color. Fossils from the Painten Quarry are highly valued for their color and rarity. Aspidorhynchus (meaning "shield snout") is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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