The Fossil Fish Collection at the Jura-Museum Eichstätt
Citation
Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns. The Fossil Fish Collection at the Jura-Museum Eichstätt. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/qi5so7 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-10-02.Description
The Jura-Museum Eichstätt houses one of the most important collections of fossil fishes in Europe. Currently the collection comprizes more than 7,000 specimens, most of them from the late Jurassic Plattenkalk (Solnhofen-Archipelago, Franconian Alb, Bavaria, Germany). Newly prepared and fully documented but as yet undescribed specimens from recent excavations are of international importance, as are type specimens and originals to publications of Gloria Arratia, Paulo M. Brito, Martin Ebert, Stefanie Klug, Jürgen Kriwet, Paul Lambers, Jennifer Lane, Adriana López-Arbarello, Orvar Nybelin, Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, Kerstin Schröder, Hans-Peter Schultze and Detlev Thies. The collection specimens are subject of several ongoing investigations on the taxonomy and systematics of bony fishes. Many provide evidence for the origin and phylogeny of the early modern Actinopterygians (Teleostei), as well as for ecological, biogeographic and stratigraphic aspects of the respective depositional environments and ecosystems. The fishes from the Solnhofen-Archipelago in the collection of the Jura-Museum Eichstätt are from different localities (basins) and it is the most diverse late Jurassic fish collection world-wide. The collection is regularly expanded, most recently especially by two scientific excavations in Schamhaupten (1989–1998) and Ettling (2007–ongoing).Taxonomic Coverages
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Contacts
Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns – SNSB IT Center, Münchentechnical point of contact
email: snsb-it-center@snsb.de
Christina Ifrim
administrative point of contact
email: Christina.Ifrim@jura-museum.de
Martin Ebert
administrative point of contact
email: Martin.Ebert@jura-museum.de