Jura-Museum

The Jura - Museum Eichstätt is on the Willibaldsburg over the Altmühltal located natural history museum of the State Natural History Collections in Bavaria.

Exhibition

The exhibitions focus on the fossils of the Solnhofen limestone, which dates back to a tropical reef and lagoon landscape of the Jura. Among the many well-preserved fossils is also a stock of previously known only in ten copies Archaeopteryx, which is devoted to the issue of aircraft has its own exhibition space with other exhibits. On display is also a so-called " sacred bird of Confucius".

Aquariums allow the comparison of fossils with live animals; it will be shown real " living fossils " such as nautilus ( Nautilus), horseshoe crabs and gars.

One of the founders of the museum is the Eichstätter Professor Franz Xaver Mayr.

Address

Jura - Museum Eichstätt, Burgstr. 19, 85072 Eichstätt

Gallery

Wellnhoferia own genus ( originally described as Archaeopteryx )

Conficiusornis sanctus, Lower Cretaceous, live reconstruction

Caturus giganteus, Upper Jurassic, one of the largest predators of the Solnhofen limestone

Gyrodus circularis, reef fish from the Upper Jurassic

Leptoteuthis gigas squid from the Untertithonium with soft tissue imprints

Trachyteuthis hastiformis, squid from the Untertithonium with tentacles

Horseshoe crab in the aquarium