Sulzkogel R3, Bed 9, Rossfeld Formation, Upper Austria (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.8° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rossfeld Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone and lithified marl

• gray marly siltstones and silty marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Vasicek and P. Faupl. 1996. Die Cephalopoden aus den Rossfeldschichten der Reichraminger Decke (Obervalanginium, oberösterreichische Kalkalpen) [Cephalopods from the Rossfeld Formation of the Reichraming Nappe (Late Valanginian, Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria)]. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 139(1):101-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69114: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite