Species: lithographica MEYER, 1861
Etymology:

Holotype: BSPHGM

Locality: Kohler’s cut in community quarry of the community of Solnhofen, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solonhofen, Lithographic limestone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: A feather.

Note: Part is at Berlin, the counterpart is in Munich.

Referred material:

HELLER, 1959 (Maxberg specimen)

Locality: Optisch’s quarry in Langenaltheim region of Bavaria, Langenaltheimer Haardt, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Lower Upper Lithographic Limestone, Malm Zeta 2b.

Biostratigraphy: Hybonoticeras hybonotum zone.

Age: Middle Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Maxberg Museum: Cervical, dorsal vertebrae, furcula, left and right humeri, left and right ulna and radii, left and right metacarpals I, II and III, phalanges and unguals, scapula, femur, tibia, fibula, tarsometatarsus, ribs and feather impressions.

 

MEYER, 1861 (London Specimen)

Holotype: BMNH 37001

Locality: Langenaltheim Haardt (former Ottmann Quarry), near Pappenheim, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: 3.5 m below the upper surface of the Sieben-Lumpen-Schicht, Solnhofen, Lower Upper Lithographic Limestone, Malm Zeta 2b.

Biostratigraphy: Hybonoticeras hybonotum zone.

Age: Lower Lower Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary skull and skeleton with feather impressions, lacking right pes, and some of the manus.

 

OSTROM, 1970 (Teyler or Haarlem specimen)

Holotype: Teyler Museum, part and counterpart 6928 and 6929.

Locality: Quarry at Jachenhausen near the city of Kelheim, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Lower Upper Lithographic Limestone, Middle Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2b,

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Impressions of the distal end of a right radius, right ulna, left radius, left ulna, left phalanges, right metacarpals I, II, III, phalanges and unguals showing sheath, gastrallia, distal end of left femur, distal end of left pubis, portion of right pubis, proximal end of left tibia, left fibula, impressions of metacarpals, phalanges and unguals, and feather impressions.

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Species: siemensii (DAMES, 1987) ELZANOWSKI, 2002
Etymology:

Holotype: PAMNHUB MB 1880/81.4598

Locality: Dorr cut, Dorr’s quarry at Blumberg just outside of the city of Eichstatt, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Lower Upper Lithographic Limestone, Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2b,

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lower Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Skull, skeleton and feather impressions.

Note: MARTIN & LIM, 2005 show the wings have a prepatagium.

Counter part: PAMNHUB MB 1880/81.4599

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Species: bavarica WELLNHOFER, 1993
Etymology: bavarica Latin for Bayerisch.

Holotype: Private collection

Locality: Limestone quarries of the Langenaltheimer Haarddt (quarry of Solenhofer Aktien-Verein), 11 m above the upper surface of the Sieben-Lumpen-Schicht, Solnhofen, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Lower Upper Lithographic Limestone, Upper Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2b,

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lower Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary skull, skeleton and feathers.