Where: Austria (48.5° N, 16.7° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 16.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Porosononion granosum foram zone, Skalica Formation, Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)
• lower Porosononion granosum zone, Upper Sarmatian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Harzhauser and W. E. Piller. 2010. Molluscs as a major part of subtropical shallow-water carbonate production - an example from a Middle Miocene oolite shoal (Upper Serravallian, Austria). In M. Mutti, W. E. Piller, C. Betzler (eds.), Carbonate Systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 42:183-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 106570: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Tropidomphalus gigas snail | |
Cerithium rubiginosum cerith snail | |
Potamides nodosoplicatum horn snail
Potamides disjunctus horn snail
Potamides hartbergensis horn snail | |
Granulolabium bicinctum Brocchi 1814 snail | |
Melanopsis impressa Krauss 1852 snail | |
Mitrella bittneri snail | |
Ocenebra striata Eichwald 1853 murex snail | |
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Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
Hydrobia frauenfeldi Hoernes 1865 snail | |
Gyraulus vermicularis Stoliczka 1862 snail | |
Cepaea gottschicki slug | |
Acteocina lajonkaireana Basterot 1825 barrel-bubble | |
Acmaea soceni Jekelius 1944 limpet | |
Theodoxus crenulatus Klein 1853 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus subincrassatus mussel | |
Venerupis gregarius venus clam | |
"Sarmatimactra eichwaldi" = Mactra (Sarmatimactra)
"Sarmatimactra eichwaldi" = Mactra (Sarmatimactra) clam | |
Mytilopsis sp. Conrad 1857 clam | |
Obsoletiforma ghergutai cockle | |
Donax dentiger clam | |
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Solen subfragilis clam |