Bluesky Facebook Reddit Email

Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment

07.26.23 | PLOS

Sky & Telescope Pocket Sky Atlas, 2nd Edition

Sky & Telescope Pocket Sky Atlas, 2nd Edition is a durable star atlas for planning sessions, identifying targets, and teaching celestial navigation.
A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles
An artistic reconstruction of the animal in its environment. Credit: Peter Nickolaus, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment

###

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287936

Article Title: A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0287936

A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles

26-Jul-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Additional Media

A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles
The specimen (Solnhofia parsonsi) from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Torleite Formation of Painten. Credit: Augustin et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Keywords

Animal Habitats Animals Archeology Social Sciences Taphonomy

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0287936
Article Publication Date
2023-07-26
Article Title
A new specimen of Solnhofia parsonsi from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany) and comments on the relationship between limb taphonomy and habitat ecology in fossil turtles
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, July 26). Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1GRZ2ZJ8/beautifully-complete-turtle-fossil-from-150-million-years-ago-provides-new-insights-into-its-environment.html
MLA:
"Beautifully complete turtle fossil from 150 million years ago provides new insights into its environment." Brightsurf News, Jul. 26 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1GRZ2ZJ8/beautifully-complete-turtle-fossil-from-150-million-years-ago-provides-new-insights-into-its-environment.html.