Where: Germany (47.7° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 15.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gosau Group, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified floatstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: R. Höfling. 1985. Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, A 3:1-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74483: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.08.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809 clam | |
"Pitarinae indet." = Callocardiinae
"Pitarinae indet." = Callocardiinae Dall 1895 venus clam | |
Lapeirousia pervinquierei, Radiolites ex gr. angeiodes, Radiolites cf. subradiosus, Biradiolites acuticostatus
Lapeirousia pervinquierei rudist
Radiolites ex gr. angeiodes rudist
Radiolites cf. subradiosus rudist
Biradiolites acuticostatus rudist | |
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Lithocodium | |
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956 | |
Lithocodium aggregatum | |
Lithocodium cf. aggregatum Elliott 1956 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Archaeolithothamnium sp., "Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843 | |
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843 | |
Clypeina sp. Michelin 1845 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotaliina indet. Delage and Herouard 1896 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Trochamminidae indet. Schwager 1877 | |
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |