Category Archives: Holzmaden

more Holzmaden marine reptiles – this time at the MfN

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf deutsch. I’ve bombarded you with marine reptiles of all kinds from the Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden before, all of them from the Urweltmuseum Hauff: ichthyosaurs, more ichthyosaurs, and plesiosaurs (including pliosaurs) and crocodiles – as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in Hauff, Holzmaden, ichthyosaur, lower vertebrates, MfN Berlin | 2 Comments

Palaeontology of SW Germany 3.1.8: a whopper of a fossil

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Welcome to 2013 on dinosaurpalaeo! I’ll start the year with one whopper of a fossil from the Urweltmuseum Hauff. A Seirocrinus subangularis colony (great NHM page on the genus here), just your old sessile, filter-feeding crinoids, a long-stemmed variant that … Continue reading →

Posted in Hauff, Holzmaden, spineless stuff (invertebrates) | 10 Comments

Paleontology of SW Germany 3.1.3: even more Lias

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

and we will stay stuck in the Lias ε for a loooooong time! Simply because it is so choke-full of wonderful fossils, and because I have tons of photos of them. The last post ended in the urweltmuseum fischer, so … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Holzmaden, lower vertebrates, Travels | 5 Comments

South Germany palaeontology – an ichthyosaur as preview

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Pretty soon I plan to bombard you with a ton of photos of fossils from southern Germany – the stuff I grew up with, and that dominated the university museum I studied at, as well as many other places nearby. … Continue reading →

Posted in Holzmaden, ichthyosaur, Travels | 11 Comments