Waidach, near Nussdorf, horizon 1 (Cretaceous of Austria)

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
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Sclerorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 ray
 Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Cretascymnus beauryi Feichtinger et al. 2022 sleeper shark
 Orectolobiformes -
Parasquatina zitteli Pollerspöck and Beaury 2014 carpet shark