Seefeld, GBA collection (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.3° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Seefeld Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, carbonaceous limestone

• "Graben-like depressions on an extended marine carbonate platform...marginal position with restricted water circulation and anoxic conditions within the bottom zone".
• "Bedded, slightly bituminous, dark gray limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien

Primary reference: G. Arratia. 2013. Morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Triassic Pholidophorid fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1-138 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121671: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus latiusculus
Pholidophorus latiusculus Agassiz 1832
GBA 2006/096/0024