Where: Austria (47.8° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 16.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Leitha Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1963. Korallensteinkerne im österreichischen Miozän [Coral casts from the Austrian Miocene]. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 66:101-112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124259: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum austriacum Prochazka 1893 stony coral | |
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Acanthastrea horrida Reuss 1860 stony coral | |
Mammalia | |
Metaxytherium medium Desmarest 1822 dugong | |
Bivalvia | |
Gastrochaena sp. Spengler 1783 clam | |
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel | |
Thecostraca | |
Pyrgoma costatum coral barnacle |