Solnhofia
Solnhofia is a genus of extinct thalassochelydian turtle from the Late Jurassic of Germany. The type and only species is Solnhofia parsoni, named by Gaffney in 1975 for a partial skull and jaw from the early Tithonian of the Solnhofen Formation in Bavaria. Additional material including a complete skeleton is known from the late Kimmeridgian of Switzerland and the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian of other deposits within Bavaria, and potentially also unprepared material from the Late Jurassic of France. The genus was referred to the family Eurysternidae by Anquetin and colleagues in 2017, which may represent an artificial clade of early thalassochelydians.[1]
| Solnhofia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Eurysternidae |
| Genus: | †Solnhofia Gaffney, 1975 |
| Species: | †S. parsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Solnhofia parsoni Gaffney, 1975 | |
References
- Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (2): 317–369.
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