A flattened—but still mostly complete—turtle fossil from the late Jurassic period was just unearthed in present-day Germany.
from the region today. About 150 million years ago, the region in southern Germany near Munich was a shallow tropical archipelago with spongey reefs around it. When animals likedied in these salty and low oxygen bodies of water, scavengers had a difficult, if not impossible, time picking apart their remains, leading to well preserved specimens like this turtle pancake. , the turtle’s forelimbs and hind limbs are comparatively short, which suggests that it lived near the coast.
“No Solnhofia individual with such completely preserved extremities has ever been described before,” study co-author and paleontologist at the University of Tübingen Felix Augustin
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