Rabenkropf section, Ra 4I (90 to 110 cm) (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 15.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous packstone and grainstone

• yellow-orange, friable, bioclastic cortoid pack-/grainstones with dense mollusc coquinas, partly forming mollusc rudstones. Aragonitic shells have been completely dissolved, but the remaining cavities allow a clear identification of the species based on silicone molds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser, J. Peckmann, D. Birgel, E. Draganits, O. Mandic, D. Theobalt, and J. Huemer. 2014. Stromatolites in the Paratethys Sea during the Middle Miocene climate transition as witness of the Badenian salinity crisis. Facies 60:429-444 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180379: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides nodosoplicatus
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
Thericium europaeum
Thericium europaeum Mayer 1878 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata
"Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata Montagu 1803 clam