Schneckenwand, hypersaline lagoon (Cretaceous of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hochmoos Formation (Gosau Group), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous marl

• hypersaline lagoon

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 74490: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Spatangus sp. Gray 1825 heart urchin
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtiidae
cf. Lithostrobus sp. Bütschli 1882 radiolarian
 Radiolaria - Ethmosphaeridae
Cenosphaera sp. Ehrenberg 1854 radiolarian
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Gaudryina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Dictyopsellidae