Solnhofen is a limestone deposit from the Jurassic period. Solnhofen is located in a region known as the Southern Franconian Alb (Sudliche Frankiche Alb), which lies just north of Munich in Southern Germany. Solnhofen limestone is very important to paleontologists of today. For it is an extremely rich fossil deposit about the life of the late Jurassic. The quality of the fossils and the amount of information acquired from this site has been indispensable. The organisms where buried in mud which aloud for there intact preservation. Almost all of the organisms found where complete. And one such fossil group is that of the Odonata order.

Many different genera of the order were found at Solnhofen. Here is a list of them....

Aeschnidium
Aeschnogomphus
Anisophlebia
Euphaeopsis
Isophlebia
Libellulium (prev. Cymatophlebia)
Nannogomphus
Protolindenia
Pseudoeuphoea
Steleopleron
Tarsophlebia
Urogomphus

Below is a picture from Solnhofen of a rare fossilization seen, a pair of dragonflies riding in tandem