Echinoidea, Coralline algae limestone, Brudernsdorf Fm, Haidhof (Paleocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.5° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waschberg zone, Bruderndorf Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Late Danian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic limestone

• heterogeneous algal limestone with variable glauconitic content

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: A. Kroh. 2001. Echinoids from the Danian (Lower Paleocene) Bruderndorf Formation of Austria. Paleogene of the Eastern Alps (14)377-463 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47931: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825 pencil urchin
 Salenioida - Hyposaleniidae
Hyposalenia heliophora Agassiz and Desor 1846 sea urchin