Fenk quarry NNW of Grosshöflein, Müllendorf quarry system, Section A, bed 1 (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.9° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Upper Langhian; Middle Badenian

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• platy well-cemented limestones (bed 1) containing few poorly rounded crystalline pebbles.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. Wiedl, M. Harzhauser, A. Kroh, S. Coric, and W. E. Piller. 2013. Ecospace variability along a carbonate platform at the northern boundary of the Miocene reef belt (Upper Langhian, Austria). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 370:232-246 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146502: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Eucidaris zeamays Sismonda 1842 pencil urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae