Nexing Quarry (Miocene of Austria)

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

• seaway or channel framed by ooid shoals which connected the northern Vienna Basin with the lagoon of the Mistelbach Basin
• coarse mollusc shell-hash, medium to coarse quartz sand with ooids; shells produce large foresets of up to 13 m height with complex internal structures

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
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Gastropoda
 Cycloneritida - Helicinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Gibbula picta top snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Granulolabium bicinctum Brocchi 1814 snail
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis impressa Krauss 1852 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ocenebra striata Eichwald 1853 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira helicina Brocchi 1814 moon snail
subsp. sarmatica
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
Hydrobia frauenfeldi Hoernes 1865 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Gyraulus vermicularis Stoliczka 1862 snail
 Stylommatophora - Helicidae
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina lajonkaireana Basterot 1825 barrel-bubble
 Patellida - Lottiidae
Acmaea soceni Jekelius 1944 limpet
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Theodoxus crenulatus Klein 1853 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Cardiida -
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Sarmatimactra eichwaldi" = Mactra (Sarmatimactra)
"Sarmatimactra eichwaldi" = Mactra (Sarmatimactra) clam
 Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Mytilopsis sp. Conrad 1857 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Obsoletiforma obsoleta cockle
subsp. vindobonensis
 Cardiida - Donacidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia dissita clam
subsp. podolica
 Solenida - Solenidae