Molasse Zone (Eocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.1° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. W. Rasser and W. E. Piller. 1999. Application of neontological taxonomie concepts to Late Eocene coralline algae (Rhodophyta) of the Austrian Molasse Zone. Journal of Micropalaeontology 18:67-80 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella melobesioides, Spongites "sp. 1", Spongites "sp. 2", Neogoniolithon sp.
Spongites "sp. 1" Kützing 1841
Spongites "sp. 2" Kützing 1841
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Phymatolithon sp.
Phymatolithon sp. Foslie 1898
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon "sp. 1", Sporolithon "sp. 2"
Sporolithon "sp. 1" Rothpletz 1891
Sporolithon "sp. 2" Rothpletz 1891