Fossil Shrimp from Solnhofen Germany

This aesthetic fossil shrimp comes from the famous Solnhofen lithographic limestone, in Eichstatt, Germany. This region is home to some of the world's most important fossil discoveries, including Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur. TAXONOMY Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Family: Aegeridae Genus: Aeger Species: Aeger spinipes GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT Location: Solnhofen formation, Bavaria, Germany Age: Late Jurassic, 148 million years old. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Dimensions: The plate measures 8.5 wide x 10.1 inches tall x 0.7 inches thick. Specimen measures 2.78 inches excluding the antennae. Weight: 2152 grams