Wallberg-Blankenstein area, Tegernsee, Bavaria (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Reef 16

Where: Germany (47.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Rhaetian Reef Limestone Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• "Oberrhätriffkalk"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• patch reefs
• bafflestones, framestones, float-/rudstones, bindstones, wacke-/packstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. H. Ehses and R. R. Leinfelder. 1988. Laterale und vertikale Faziesentwicklung der Rhät/Unterlias-Sedimentation im Wallberg-Blankenstein-Gebiet (Tegernsee, Nördliche Kalkalpen) [Lateral and vertical facies development in Rhaetian-Lower Liassic sedimentation in the Wallberg-Blankenstein area (Tegernsee)]. Mainzer Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 17:53-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67807: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia clathrata Emmrich 1853 stony coral
Calcarea
  -
Calcarea indet. Bowerbank 1864 calcareous sponge
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Heteroporella sp. Praturlon 1966
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina austroalpina Kristan-Tollmann and Tollmann 1964
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956