Category Archives: spineless stuff (invertebrates)

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. This part of the Palaeontology of SW Germany series has arrived at a deep low in the number of vertebrates shown, and it is time I fight my way through the rest of the spineless stuff … Continue reading →

Dieser Beitrag auf deutsch. Last post on Hauff promised ammonites, the most common fossil you can find in the German Jurassic. Unsurprisingly, the Urweltmuseum has plenty, and in incredible preservations. I’ll start with a really rare and exceptional specimen. A … Continue reading →

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. Decapods today. It is high time I finally finish off the remaining fossils from the Urweltmuseum Hauff and post a final post discussing the museum as a whole, and one on the reconstructions shown – oh … Continue reading →

forgot them in the post showing the fossils. cannibalism! Yay!

In the series from the Urweltmuseum Hauff in Holzmaden (link list to previous instalments here) we’ve had the belemnites, now it is squids. Phragmotheutis conocauda, with a small fish in between the hooked tentacles. You can nicely see the cuttlebone, … Continue reading →

This series of posts on the Palaeontology of SW Germany, where I grew up, has gotten a bit longwinded and confusing. Therefore, I’ll give you a linklist to those parts dealing with the Urweltmuseum Hauff. Introduction “rock stair”, bio- & … Continue reading →