page_title: Holzmaden
section_title: Fossils
hierarchical_section_title: Holzmaden / Fossils
caption_attribution_description: English: Posidonia shale (Holzmaden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) Harpoceras falcifer Deutsch: Posidonienschiefer (Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland) Harpoceras falcifer
context_page_description: Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm.
  Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town and surrounding area are well known as the source of exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Jurassic period.
context_section_description: The ground in and around the city contains rich layers of well-preserved fossils (or Lagerstätten) of the Jurassic period.  The fossils are found in the 180-million-year-old Posidonia Shale and displayed in the local Museum Hauff as well as museums around the world. This locale is important for its frequent preservation of soft tissue, a rarity in fossils.
  Examples from this site include:
  Ichthyosaurs
  Plesiosaur
  Steneosaurus
  Platysuchus
  Lepidotus
  Dapedius
  Ammonite
  Pentacrinus colony (Sea Lily)
caption: Harpoceras falcifer from the Holzmaden Lagerstätte
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