Waxeneck Kalk,Donnerwand, Mürztaler Alps, Styria (Triassic to of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.7° N, 14.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, oncoidal, white limestone

• back-reef zone
• white limestone without fossils ('Waxeneck Kalk')

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen

Primary reference: P. Riedel. 1990. Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]. Ph. D. thesis - Erlangen 1-96 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60372: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 11.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia styriaca Mojsisovics 1874 oyster