Plesioteuthis Solnhofen Squid Museum Fossil

Description: This is a well-preserved specimen on an uncommon Solnhofen fossil squid. It is a quite large, and impressively presented on its solid lithographic limestone plate. The soft body and pen are well preserved. Apparently, even the ink sac chamber is intact.

This spectacular fossil comes from the world famous Lagerstätte, the lithographic limestone Solnhofen deposits of Germany. These 150 million year old deposits are famous for their exceptionally well-preserved and diverse organisms, the most famous of which are the handful of specimens of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx. During the Late Jurassic, this region was an archipelago at the edge of the Tethys Sea. Fossils are preserved in very fine grained (lithographic) limestone.