Where: Austria (47.9° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 13.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: UC20d - CC26b nannofossil zone, Gerhartsreit Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• UC20d/CC26b biozone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, argillaceous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck in 2021; reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: chemical, peroxide
Primary reference: I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck, M. Harzhauser, G. Auer, S., M. Kranner, and G. Guinot. 2022. Shifts in composition of northern Tethyan elasmobranch assemblages during the last millennia of the Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research 142(105414) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 228912: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Sclerorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 ray | |
Cretascymnus beauryi Feichtinger et al. 2022 sleeper shark | |
Parasquatina zitteli Pollerspöck and Beaury 2014 carpet shark |