Where: Lower Austria, Austria (48.2° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 14.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pielach Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHY: The lower part of the outcrop exhibits Late Kiscelian to early Early Egerian, limnic pelites of the Pielach Formation overlying the crystalline basement. Sedimentation of the pellites continues into the Early Egerian, when paralic coals and a rich mollusc fauna first occur. The Melk Formation conformably overlies the Pielach Formation here. AGE: The Pielach Formation can be dated o the lower Polle Bozone Ng. Z. 1., ranging from the Kiscellian to the Early Egerian. The Early Egerian age can be inferred for the upper part of the Pielach Formation, based on its interfingering with the Melk and Linz Formations. Assigned here to Late Kiscellian-Early Egerian = Chattian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; poorly lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Lists obtained from previous accounts and material obtained from collections at Inst. of Pal. Vienna, Geol. Surv. Austria Vienna, and Mus. Nat. Hist. Vienna. At least part of the outcrop is no longer accessible.

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser and O. Mandic. 2001. Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14:671-795 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55244: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.09.2005

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