Plattenwald (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.3° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tardefurcata ammonoid zone, Klaus Beds Member (Garschella Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Tardefurcata and mammillatum zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, phosphatic sandstone

• Phosphatic, condensed bed above a dark glauconitic sandstone. Extremely weathered with phosphatic internal casts in a sandy matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: hydrochloric, sieve,

• Repository: Vorarlberger Naturschau, Dornbirn (Austria)

Primary reference: H. Sulser and J. G. Friebe. 2002. Brachiopods from the Plattenwald Bed (Albian, Cretaceous) of the Helvetic Alps of Vorarlberg (Austria). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 95(3):415-427 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157093: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.06.2014, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis compressa d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Podoseris elongata Duncan 1869 stony coral
Podoseris mammiliformis Duncan 1869 stony coral
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
? Gemmarcula plattenwaldensis n. sp. Sulser and Friebe 2002