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The Painten Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic period.^[1]

Description

It is roughly contemporary with the Altmühltal Formation (which includes the true Solnhofen limestone), as they both underlay the Mörnsheim Formation.^[2] The 12th specimen, or "Schamhaupten specimen", of Archaeopteryx was uncovered in the lower portion of the Painten Formation.^[2] Other dinosaurs found here include Juravenator, Ostromia and possibly Compsognathus.

The following fossils have been reported from the formation:^[1]

* Schoenesmahl dyspepsia^[3]

^ ^a ^b Painten Formation at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Rauhut et al., 2019
^ Reisdorf, A.G.; Wuttke, M. (2012). "Re-evaluating Moodie's Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in fossil vertebrates. Part I: Reptiles – The taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 92 (1): 119–168. doi:10.1007/s12549-011-0068-y. S2CID 129785393
^ Fabre, 1981
^ Rauhut et al., 2018
^ Tischlinger & Frey, 2013
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Arratia, 2000

Rauhut, Oliver W.M.; Helmut Tischlinger, and Christian Foth. 2019. A non-archaeopterygid avialan theropod from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. eLife 8. e43789. . PMID 31084702 PMC 6516837 doi:10.7554/eLife.43789
Rauhut, O. W. M.; C. Foth, and H. Tischlinger. 2018. The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria. PeerJ 6. e4191. .
Foth, C., and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2017. Re-evaluation of the Haarlem Archaeopteryx and the radiation of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17. 236. .
Tischlinger, H., and E. Frey. 2013. A new pterosaur with mosaic characters of basal and pterodactyloid pterosauria from the Upper Kimmeridgian of Painten (Upper Palatinate, Germany). Archaeopteryx 31. 1–13. .
Arrati, G. 2000. Remarkable teleostean fishes from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany and their phylogenetic relationships. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 3. 137–179. .
Fabre, J. 1981. Les rhynchocephales et les pterosauriens a crete parietale du Kimeridgien superieur-Berriasien d'Europe occidentale: le gisement de Canjuers (Var-France) et ses abords, 1–188. ..