Riepl, reef limestones, Karavanke Mountains, Carinthia (Triassic of Austria)

Also known as Reef 96

Where: Austria (46.5° N, 14.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Anisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• 5 microfacies: bio- to lithoclastic wackestone to packstone, sphinctozoan framestone, bafflestone, algal bindstone, interbedded pelsparitic grain- and packstones with framestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel. 1986. Zur Mikrofazies oberanisischer Riffkalke in den östlichen Nordkarawanken, Kärnten [Microfacies of Upper Anisian reef limestones from the Eastern Karawanke Mountains, Carinthia]. Carinthia II 176/96:463-478 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes gracilis Schafer and Senowbary-Daryan 1983
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
Cryptocoelia sp. Steinmann 1882 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae
Zardinia sp. Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
Ladinella porata
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Shamovella
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"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Foraminifera
  -
"Ophtalmidium sp." = Ophthalmidium
"Ophtalmidium sp." = Ophthalmidium Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Ophthalmidiidae
Karaburunia sp.
listed as Karaburania
Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
Muranella
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