Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hochmoos Formation (Gosau Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: R. Höfling. 1985. Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, A 3:1-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74489: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.08.2007
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Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
"Lenticulina ex gr. muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri
"Lenticulina ex gr. muensteri" = Lenticulina munsteri Roemer 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globotruncana ex gr. coronata Bolli 1953 | |
Globothalamea | |
"Gypsina" sp. Carter 1877 | |
Foraminifera | |
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872 | |
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Anthozoa | |
Placosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Loxonematacea indet." = Loxonematoidea
"Loxonematacea indet." = Loxonematoidea Koken 1889 snail | |
Turbinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Torquesia rigida turret shell | |
? Cylichna sp. Lovén 1846 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam |