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Holzmaden

A scene from the Posidonia Shale (Holzmaden, Germany, ~180mya) featuring a wide variety of life.

Species include: Seirocrinus (a crinoid famous for giant colonies where members could reach length of 15m)
Harpoceras (ammonite)
Campylognathoides (pterosaur)
Stenopterygius (a ~3m long ichthyosaur)
Temnodontosaurus trigonodon (a huge ichthyosaur that sometimes preyed on Stenopterygius, known from a fossil stored in the museum in Stuttgart
Meyerasaurus (a smaller, 3,35m long rhomaleosaurid)
and assorted fish(tm).