Dietrichshorn, Unken area, lagoonal facies, Salzburg (Jurassic to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 12.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lerchkogel Member (Lärchberg Formation), Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 139.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified grainstone

• foraminiferal-algal wackestone/floatstone and ooidal grainstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. Darga and F. Schlagintweit. 1991. Mikrofazies, Paläontologie und Stratigraphie der Lerchkogelkalke (Tithon-Berrias) des Dietrichshorns (Salzburger Land, Nördliche Kalkalpen) [Microfacies, paleontology and stratigraphy of the Lerchkogel Limestone (Tithonian-Berriasian) of the Dietrichshorn (Salzburg, Northern Calcareous Alps)]. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 134(2):205-226 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68261: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

 Thaumatoporellales -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
 Loftusiacea - Mesoendothyridae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Textulariina - Paravalvulinidae
"Valvulina lugeoni" = Redmondoides lugeoni
"Valvulina lugeoni" = Redmondoides lugeoni Septfontaine 1977
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
  -
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
""Conicospirillina" basiliensis" = Mohlerina basiliensis
""Conicospirillina" basiliensis" = Mohlerina basiliensis Mohler 1938
Foraminifera
  -
Siphovalvulina variabilis Septfontaine 1988
Hormogoneae
 Nostocales - Rivulariaceae